|Sponsored by the OECD's
Co-operative Research Programme
|With the participation of
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
Contagious livestock diseases can cause major harm to human and animal health, to firms, and to consumers and taxpayers. Governments are increasingly acting to prevent and control livestock diseases, while international organisations develop codes, guidelines and programs to enhance international co-operation and efficient management of diseases. The economic costs, such as compensation for culling of animals, can be high and difficult to predict. The evolution of a disease or outbreak can also be uncertain. Economists, epidemiologists and policy makers need to communicate clearly with each other to ensure better policies for managing livestock diseases. Conference participants examined how economics and animal sciences can contribute towards managing livestock disease risks in an efficient and comprehensive manner.
1. Livestock disease management as a complex multidisplinary problem
Lovell Jarvis and Pablo Valdes-Donoso, Economic analysis of animal health issues: A guide to critical thinking
Tim Carpenter, The epidemiology of FMD outbreaks in the United States
Ron Bergevoet and Marcel van Asseldonk, Economic evaluation of FMD control strategies in the Netherlands
Barbara Haesler, Jonathan Rushton, Katherine D.C. Stärk and Keith S. Howe, Surveillance and intervention expenditure: Substitution or complementarity between different types of policy
3. The challenge of zoonosis
François Le Gall, Managing livestock diseases as part of global public health
4. Moral hazard and externalities
Christopher Wolf, Livestock disease indemnity design: Considering asymmetric information
5. Experiences on cost-sharing and public-private partnerships
Frank Alleweldt, Cost-sharing in compensation schemes for livestock epidemics
Miranda Meuwissen and Marcel A.P.M. van Asseldonk, European Union subsidies: A catalyst for epidemic disease market loss insurance?
Julie Barnett, Social risk perceptions and animal health policies
Yukiko Yamada, Communication to stakeholders - Some experiences in MAFF
Alberto Laddomada, Round table on information, communication, the media and policy making
Hernán Rojas, Industry cooperation and private public partnerships
Related OECD work
Livestock diseases: Prevention, control and compensation schemes
This report is an overview of the management of risk due to livestock diseases, a potentially catastrophic type of risk that can have strong external effects given its links to the food chain and to human health.
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