Tosapol Dejyong. Economic and value chain analysis to support risk mitigation in animal health problem. Doctoral Degraee(Bio-Veterinary Sciences). Kasetsart University. Office of the University Library. : Kasetsart University, 2022.
Economic and value chain analysis to support risk mitigation in animal health problem
Abstract:
The experience of controlling outbreaks, such as Marek's disease, Foot and mouth disease, African swine fever, and Avian influenza, as well as minimizing animal health problems, such as Hight somatic cell count, has shown the critical roles that stakeholders of livestock production and trade play on disease introduction or spread. Value chain analysis is an integral tool in risk analysis to identify critical control points and high-risk networks in livestock production and marketing chains considering economic and disease-related factors. So, to effectively manage an outbreak and an animal health problem, understanding stakeholders behaviours and practices, as well as their linkage using a value chain approach, can support outbreak investigation efforts and inform interventions to manage the risk, also, provide information on critical control points to be considered for risk mitigation. Moreover, to strengthen the communication of recommendations from outbreak investigation, economic losses/impacts analysis using cost-benefit analysis and partial budget analysis can be conducted to educate stakeholders in realizing the impact of infectious diseases and increase their willingness to follow recommendations or implement disease preventive and control measures. This thesis aims to demonstrate that economic approaches such as value chain analysis and economic impact analysis can be linked to outbreak investigation to effectively support risk mitigations or outbreak management decisions in an animal disease outbreak. Applications of economic tools using examples of high somatic cell count problems in Dairy cattle in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and Mareks disease in layers in the Southern part of Thailand were conducted to satisfy the objective.
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