Project Portfolio

Animal Health

Animal health and food safety are strategies to boost quality and productivity

The Animal Health Portfolio focuses on the diagnosis, control, prevention and/or eradication of animal disease agents through research, development and technology transfer in the Brazilian territory.

Strategy to ensure the national heritage

The health of the herds has become increasingly strategic for the country, once Brazil is an important producer of food of animal origin. There is a strong contribution of the livestock sector - especially beef and poultry production (second place in world production), pork (fourth largest producer), dairy, fish and eggs - to agribusiness, and the herd has to be disease free. 

Considering such production factors, disease agents threaten the stability of production systems with a 20% impact in animal farming in the whole world. Keeping the herds free from such agents, ensuring their health and food safety, is a challenge for the sector.

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Innovation Challenges

 

  • Structure an integrated digital platform with consistent data on risk, epidemiological surveillance, modeling, and impact of diseases and pathogens of the main animal species of economic and public health interest
  • Reduce the use of antibiotics, genetic resistance of bacteria and plasmids, and environmental contamination of meat, milk and egg production systems
  • Reduce waste and dependence on chemical control for endoparasites and ectoparasites that affect sheep, goats, poultry, swine, and beef and dairy cattle
  • Reduce disposal and improve the use of carcasses upon the slaughter of poultry, swine, and ruminants
  • Improve the diagnosis, control, surveillance and eradication of diseases of the swine respiratory complex, seneca virus, swine respiratory and reproductive syndrome, classical and African swine fever, and Aujeszky's disease
  • Improve the diagnosis, control, surveillance and eradication of poultry diseases caused by Salmonella, Campylobacter, Mycoplasmas, avian influenza and Newcastle disease
  • Expand the diagnosis and effective management of diseases and pathogens in the meat, milk and egg production chains
  • Improve the diagnosis, control and eradication of diseases that negatively affect access to international markets in the meat and dairy chains
  • Optimize the diagnosis, prevention and control of pathogens that cause losses in ruminants' gestational and lactation stages
  • Improve the control of worms, myiases, lentiviroses, caseous lymphadenitis and mastitis in sheep and goats
  • Improve the diagnosis, control, surveillance and eradication of infectious anemia, glanders, arboviruses, worms and hemoparasitoses that affect horses
  • Improve the diagnosis, prevention and control of parasitic diseases in cattle and buffaloes infected by ticks, flies, worms, Babesia / Anaplasma and trypanosomes
  • Improve the diagnosis, prevention, control and eradication of the main bee diseases
  • Expand traceability and quick diagnosis of pathogens, toxins, and traces of drugs within food from animal sources and of economic and public health interest.
  • Broaden safety and animal health in agricultural producion chains in light of interfaces with either native or invasive animal species

Portfolio Managing Committee

The Portfolio Management Committee works to define innovation challenges and oversee the portfolio of projects.
 

Chairperson:

Executive secretary:

Partnerships and Business

Embrapa's Innovation Model focuses on open innovation, which relies on partnerships since the beginning of each project for the sake of the market insertion of new assets. Find out how to jointly invent with Embrapa technological solutions that add value to business and enable innovation in the agricultural production sector.

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