Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries

✍ Scribed by David Zilberman, Joachim Otte, David Roland-Holst, Dirk Pfeiffer (auth.), David Zilberman, Joachim Otte, David Roland-Holst, Dirk Pfeiffer (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 418
• Series: Natural Resource Management and Policy 36
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides an overview of the state of animal agriculture and present methodologies and proposals to develop policies that result in sustainable and profitable animal production that will protect human and environmental health, enhance livelihood of smallholders and meet consumer needs. The book combines lessons of the past, factual foundation to understand the present, analytical tools to design and improve policies, case studies that provide both empirical grounding and applications of some of the strategies suggested in this book, and finally, a proposal for the way forward.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-6
The Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis in the United States in a Comparative Perspective....Pages 7-30
The Evolution of Animal Agricultural Systems and Supply Chains: Theory and Practice....Pages 31-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
The Economics of Zoonotic Diseases: An Application to Avian Flu....Pages 59-76
Animal Disease and the Industrialization of Agriculture....Pages 77-99
Dynamic Perspectives on the Control of Animal Disease: Merging Epidemiology and Economics....Pages 101-118
Border Inspection and Trade Diversion: Risk Reduction vs. Risk Substitution....Pages 119-134
The Cost of Saving a Statistical Life: A Case for Influenza Prevention and Control....Pages 135-141
The Effect of Social Norms and Economic Considerations on Purchases of Chicken....Pages 143-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Strain Type H5N1....Pages 161-182
Mathematical Models of Infectious Diseases in Livestock: Concepts and Application to the Spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Strain Type H5N1....Pages 183-205
Large-Scale Vaccination for the Control of Avian Influenza: Epidemiological and Financial Implications....Pages 207-231
Poultry Movement and Sustained HPAI Risk in Cambodia....Pages 233-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
AI Insurance/Indemnification: The Canadian Experience and Its Application to Developing Regions....Pages 267-279
Understanding Knowledge, Attitude, Perceptions, and Practices for HPAI Risks and Management Options Among Kenyan Poultry Producers....Pages 281-304
Controlling Animal Disease in Africa....Pages 305-325
Promoting Rural Livelihoods and Public Health Through Poultry Contracting: Evidence from Thailand....Pages 327-351
Micro Contracting and the Smallholder Poultry Supply Chain in Lao PDR....Pages 353-370
Poultry Sector Transition in Cambodia....Pages 371-389
Avian Influenza in China: Consumer Perception of AI and their Willingness to Pay for Traceability Labeling....Pages 391-399
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Conclusion....Pages 403-407
Back Matter....Pages 409-420

✦ Subjects

Agricultural Economics; Development Economics; Environmental Economics; Environmental Management