This international cooperation program led by France aims at improving biosecurity measures to better control African Swine Fever (ASF) in South-East Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Vietnam). Conducted over three years, this project is led by ENSV-FVI / VetAgro Sup on behalf of the Ministry for Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, in partnership with IFIP, CIRAD and AVSF, thanks to funding from the STDF and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly resistant viral disease that exclusively affects pigs (domestic and wild). Since the first outbreak discovered in China in August 2018, the virus has spread at high speed in the region, hitting Vietnam (February 2019), Cambodia (April 2019) and Laos (June 2019), before spreading to insular Southeast Asia like such as in the Philippines (July 2019). ASF threatens the entire pork value-chains and industries in South-East Asia, with nutritional and economic impacts (loss of income for farmers and the economies of the territories), but also risks for the food security of the populations, amplified by the economic crisis caused by Covid-19.
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Everyone has a role to play in preventing the spread of African swine fever.
