The economics of animal health and production

Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
Foreword......Page 17
Acknowledgements......Page 19
1 History of Livestock and Animal Health Economics......Page 21
PART I: THEORY AND TOOLS FOR THE ECONOMICS OF ANIMAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTION......Page 31
2 What Is Economics and How Is It Useful?......Page 33
3 Livestock Production Economics......Page 36
4 Economics of Controlling Livestock Diseases: Basic Theory......Page 66
5 Data Collection......Page 70
6 Livestock Data Collection Methods......Page 78
7 Economic Analysis Tools......Page 85
8 Modelling and the Generation of Information......Page 127
9 Optimization Methods for Assisting Policy Decisions on Endemic Diseases......Page 131
10 Tools That Go Beyond the Enterprise, Farm or Business Level: Investigating Markets, Market Trends and Assessing Public Investments in the Livestock Sector......Page 136
11 Tools for Assessing the Price and Market Impacts of Livestock Policies......Page 156
12 The New Institutional Economics and the Assessment of Animal Disease Control......Page 164
13 Social and Cultural Factors......Page 169
14 The Economics of Zoonoses and Their Control......Page 181
15 Livestock Populations and Production Systems......Page 188
PART II: A REVIEW OF THE APPLICATION OF ECONOMICS TO ANIMAL DISEASES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS......Page 213
16 The Main Livestock Diseases......Page 219
17 Diseases of Large Ruminants......Page 247
18 Diseases of Small Ruminants......Page 263
19 Diseases of Pigs......Page 268
20 Diseases of Poultry......Page 275
PART III: ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY MAKING: EXAMPLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD......Page 283
21 Livestock Policy and Poverty Reduction: Experiences from the Developing World......Page 287
22 Economics in Animal Health Policy Making in Northern Ireland......Page 289
23 Animal Diseases Management in a New Livestock Trade Environment: the Case of Chile......Page 294
24 Decision Making, Scales and Quality of Economic Evaluations for the Control of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP): the Use of Economic Analysis Methods in Combination with Epidemiological and Geographical Models to Help Decision Making for CBPP Control in Ethiopia......Page 299
25 Animal Health Policy in South Asia: What Can Economic Analysis Contribute?......Page 306
26 Approaches to Economic Analyses and Implications for Policy Issues in South-east Asia: Results from Three Case Studies in Crop–Animal Systems......Page 315
Conclusions......Page 319
Bibliography......Page 322
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