The economics of animal health and production /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rushton, Jonathan (Author)
Other Authors:	Ellis, Peter R. (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
Subjects:	Animal health > Economic aspects. Livestock > Economic aspects. Agricultural Economics. Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000) Marketing and Distribution. Policy and Planning. Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000) Veterinary Economics, (New March 2000) Animal diseases. Animal health. Animal production. Decision making. Disease control. Economic analysis. Economics. Livestock. Marketing. Markets. Pigs. Pleuropneumonia. Policy. Poultry. Poverty. Prices. Ruminants. Trends. Zoonoses. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.