The economics of animal health and production /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
CABI Pub.,
[2009]
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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
- Data collection
- Livestock data collection methods
- Economic analysis tools
- Modelling and the generation of information
- Optimization methods for assisting policy decisions on endemic diseases
- 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
- The new institutional economics and the assessment of animal disease control
- Social and cultural factors
- The economics of zoonoses and their control
- 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
- Economics in animal health policy making in Northern Ireland
- Animal diseases management in a new livestock trade environment : the case of Chile
- 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
- Animal health policy in South Asia : what can economic analysis contribute?
- Approaches to economic analyses and implications for policy issues in South-east Asia : results from three case studies in crop-animal systems