The economics of animal health and production /

This book gives a theoretical and practical basis for assessing the livestock systems and animal disease control for farm, private enterprise and government policy through the provision of data collection and analysis methods and examples of their application in decision making. This book draws on a...

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Main Author: Rushton, Jonathan, (Author)
Other Authors: Ellis, Peter R., (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
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505 0 # |a History of Livestock and Animal Health Economics -- What Is Economics and How Is It Useful? -- Livestock Production Economics -- Economics of Controlling Livestock Diseases : Basic Theory / Clem Tisdell -- Data Collection -- Livestock Data Collection Methods / Rommy Viscarra and Jonathan Rushton -- Economic Analysis Tools -- Modelling and the Generation of Information / Andrew James -- Optimization Methods for Assisting Policy Decisions on Endemic Diseases / Alistair Stott -- Tools That Go Beyond the Enterprise, Farm or Business Level : Investigating Markets, Market Trends and Assessing Public Investments in the Livestock Sector -- Tools for Assessing the Price and Market Impacts of Livestock Policies / Martin Upton -- The New Institutional Economics and the Assessment of Animal Disease Control / Jonathan Rushton and David K. Leonard -- Social and Cultural Factors -- The Economics of Zoonoses and Their Control / Alexandra P.M. Shaw -- Livestock Populations and Production Systems -- The Main Livestock Diseases -- Diseases of Large Ruminants -- Diseases of Small Ruminants -- Diseases of Pigs -- Diseases of Poultry -- Livestock Policy and Poverty Reduction : Experiences from the Developing World / Joachim Otte and Ugo Pica-Ciamarra -- Economics in Animal Health Policy Making in Northern Ireland / Liz Redmond and Harvey Beck -- Animal Diseases Management in a New Livestock Trade Environment : the Case of Chile / Hernán Rojas -- 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 / Pascal Bonnet and Matthieu Lesnoff -- Animal Health Policy in South Asia : What Can Economic Analysis Contribute? / Vinod Ahuja -- Approaches to Economic Analyses and Implications for Policy Issues in South-east Asia : Results from Three Case Studies in Crop-Animal Systems / C. Devendra. 
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520 3 # |a This book gives a theoretical and practical basis for assessing the livestock systems and animal disease control for farm, private enterprise and government policy through the provision of data collection and analysis methods and examples of their application in decision making. This book draws on an extensive review of the literature on animal health economics and experiences in livestock issues in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. It is the work of a number of authors who are well respected in their own fields of economics and have made significant contributions to livestock and animal health economics. The history of livestock and animal health economics is covered in chapter 1. The 3 major parts of this book discuss the following: theory and tools for the economics of animal health and production; review of the application of economics to animal diseases and health problems; and economic analysis and policy making and examples from around the world. 
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588 # # |a Title from PDF title page (viewed August 15, 2013). 
650 # 0 |a Animal health  |x Economic aspects. 
650 # 0 |a Livestock  |x Economic aspects. 
650 # 4 |a Agricultural Economics. 
650 # 4 |a Veterinary Economics, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Policy and Planning. 
650 # 4 |a Marketing and Distribution. 
650 # 4 |a Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000) 
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650 # 7 |a Markets.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Pleuropneumonia.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Policy.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Poultry.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Poverty.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Prices.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Trends.  |2 cabt 
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