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social costs. For example, anecdotal evidence suggests that the introduction of biosecurity controls in the US and Germany … ‘biosecurity’ measures. However, this is a new area of policy and few impact assessments have been performed. This pilot project … government biosecurity policies, introduced to prevent legitimate scientific research from being misused, are having on the …
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Concerns about biosecurity in the food system raise a variety of issues about how the system is presently organized … global problem, or the way biosecurity measures can affect how countries relate to each other and the global consequences …
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' disease prevalence rates are highly correlated and 2) the effectiveness of biosecurity effort proves to be low. …
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AquaticHealth.net is an open-source aquatic biosecurity intelligence application. By combining automated data …
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We develop an agent-based model integrated with a spatial stochastic simulation harmful non-indigenous species (NIS) spread model in which farmers have learning and imitation capabilities. The model is applied to the western corn rootworm (WCR) invasion in the UK. The invasion is never...
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production activities from external effects, emphasis on control, and use of biosecurity measures. We find that animal disease … a reduction in the price of a biosecurity input could plausibly reduce both operation scale and per-animal input use, i ….e., biosecurity inputs can behave like a Giffen good. External biosecurity inputs provided through public animal disease management …
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The economic impacts of altering quarantine policies are divided into two main areas: trade evaluations, utilising a partial equilibrium approach to determine the benefits of market liberalisation; or pest management economics, used to determine the on-ground impacts of introduced species. This...
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producers' choice of means of loss prevention and identifies the relationships among biosecurity practices, vaccination, and hog … obtain the results. The findings indicate that biosecurity practices provide the basic infrastructure for operating pig farms … relationship of substitution between quality of vaccine and demand for hog insurance. Hog farmers that implement better biosecurity …
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The spreading of poultry litter in recent years has led to a serious increase in levels of eutrophication, nitrate leaching, high Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), ammonia toxicity, high chlorine concentrations and pathogen contamination. The review presented here details the optimum standards...
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Increasing volumes and speed of agricultural trade and the opening of new markets for agricultural products create greater challenges to systems established to protect countries from invasive organisms that can be harmful to human and animal health, crops and natural environments. In reaction to...
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