The economics of animal health and production /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rushton, Jonathan
Corporate Author: C.A.B. International
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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