Global food security under threat from crop and livestock diseases

Virologist and infectious diseases expert Professor John Fazakerley on getting to grips with the inevitable outbreaks

Dr Andi Horvath

Published 25 November 2016

Episode 382

A conversation with virologist and infectious diseases expert Professor John Fazakerley on the myriad threats to the global food supply from pathogen infestations in crops and livestock, and how new genetic and surveillance technologies are lending hope to keeping them in check.

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