The economics of animal health and production

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Foreword......Page 18
Acknowledgements......Page 20
1 History of Livestock and Animal Health Economics......Page 22
PART I: THEORY AND TOOLS FOR THE ECONOMICS OF ANIMAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTION......Page 32
2 What Is Economics and How Is It Useful?......Page 34
3 Livestock Production Economics......Page 37
4 Economics of Controlling Livestock Diseases: Basic Theory......Page 67
5 Data Collection......Page 71
6 Livestock Data Collection Methods......Page 79
7 Economic Analysis Tools......Page 86
8 Modelling and the Generation of Information......Page 128
9 Optimization Methods for Assisting Policy Decisions on Endemic Diseases......Page 132
10 Tools That Go Beyond the Enterprise, Farm or Business Level: Investigating Markets, Market Trends and Assessing Public Investments in the Livestock Sector......Page 137
11 Tools for Assessing the Price and Market Impacts of Livestock Policies......Page 157
12 The New Institutional Economics and the Assessment of Animal Disease Control......Page 165
13 Social and Cultural Factors......Page 170
14 The Economics of Zoonoses and Their Control......Page 182
15 Livestock Populations and Production Systems......Page 189
PART II: A REVIEW OF THE APPLICATION OF ECONOMICS TO ANIMAL DISEASES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS......Page 214
16 The Main Livestock Diseases......Page 220
17 Diseases of Large Ruminants......Page 248
18 Diseases of Small Ruminants......Page 264
19 Diseases of Pigs......Page 269
20 Diseases of Poultry......Page 276
PART III: ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY MAKING: EXAMPLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD......Page 284
21 Livestock Policy and Poverty Reduction: Experiences from the Developing World......Page 288
22 Economics in Animal Health Policy Making in Northern Ireland......Page 290
23 Animal Diseases Management in a New Livestock Trade Environment: the Case of Chile......Page 295
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 300
25 Animal Health Policy in South Asia: What Can Economic Analysis Contribute?......Page 307
26 Approaches to Economic Analyses and Implications for Policy Issues in South-east Asia: Results from Three Case Studies in Crop–Animal Systems......Page 316
Conclusions......Page 320
Bibliography......Page 323
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