Bate, Andrew Matthew, Jones, Glyn, Kleczkowski, Adam et al. (4 more authors) (2018) Livestock disease management for trading across different regulatory regimes. Ecohealth. pp. 302-316. ISSN 1612-9210
Abstract
The maintenance of livestock health depends on the combined actions of many different actors, both within and across different regulatory frameworks. Prior work recognised that private risk management choices have the ability to reduce the spread of infection to trading partners. We evaluate the efficiency of farmers’ alternative biosecurity choices in terms of their own-benefits from unilateral strategies and quantify the impact they may have in filtering the disease externality of trade. We use bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) in England and Scotland as a case study, since this provides an example of a situation where contrasting strategies for BVD management occur between selling and purchasing farms. We use an agent-based bioeconomic model to assess the payoff dependence of farmers connected by trade but using different BVD management strategies. We compare three disease management actions: test-cull, test-cull with vaccination and vaccination alone. For a two-farm trading situation, all actions carried out by the selling farm provide substantial benefits to the purchasing farm in terms of disease avoided, with the greatest benefit resulting from test-culling with vaccination on the selling farm. Likewise, unilateral disease strategies by purchasers can be effective in reducing disease risks created through trade. We conclude that regulation needs to balance the trade-off between private gains from those bearing the disease management costs and the positive spillover effects on others.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Funding Information: This work was funded by NSF Grant 1414374 as part of the joint NSF-NIHUSDA Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program and by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Grant BB/M008894/ 1. The authors are grateful to John Elliot (ADAS) and Gareth Hateley (APHA) for providing advice on cattle husbandry and BVD, which informed the structure of the model and to the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments. Publisher Copyright: © 2018, The Author(s). |
Keywords: | Co-operation,Disease management,Endemic disease,Externality,Livestock |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Electronic Engineering (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Social Policy and Social Work (York) > York Environmental Sustainability Institute |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number BBSRC (BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL) UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2018 16:00 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2024 00:07 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-018-1312-y |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10393-018-1312-y |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:127138 |
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