Title
Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme Policy Brief - Build Back Better in a Post COVID-19 World: Reducing Future Wildlife-Borne Spillover of Disease to Humans
Author(s)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Center for International Forestry Research; French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development; Wildlife Conservation Society
Published
2020
Abstract
This policy brief provides decision-makers with a set of actionable recommendations that can be implemented to prevent future epidemics caused by the spillover of diseases from wildlife and wild meat. The recommendations are based on a White Paper, which assessed:
• why spillover of disease from wildlife to humans occurs and how these zoonotic disease outbreaks can spread and become epidemics and pandemics like COVID-19;
• what efforts can be made to prevent and detect future spillover events and mitigate impacts by building resilience.
The policy brief was produced as part of the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme, which is an Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) initiative funded by the European Union.
Keywords
Coronavirus; zoonoses; infectious diseases; disease transmission; impact assessment; wildlife management
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