This paper provides a fact-based overview of African swine fever (ASF) ecology in the Northern and Eastern European populations of wild boar, and briefly describes a range of practical management and biosecurity measures that can help stockholders to address the problem in a coherent, collaborative and comprehensive way. Currently, the disease is endemic in wild b...

This paper takes stock of farms and farmland worldwide, based on agricultural censuses and survey data. According to the data, there are more than 608 million farms in the world, of which more than 90 percent are family farms that together occupy around 70-80 percent of farmland and produce about 80 percent of the world's food in value terms. Some of the data gath...