African swine fever (ASF) is a disease with a devastating impact on economy, affecting seriously the pig industry production and trade, discouraging farmers to restock their farms and continuing their business, overall changing policies and markets. In the last five years the ASF has badly...

African swine fever (ASF) is a disease with a devastating impact on economy, affecting seriously the pig industry production and trade, discouraging farmers to restock their farms and continuing their business, overall changing policies and markets. In the last five years the ASF has badly...

This study forecasts the return and volatility dynamics of S&P BSE Sensex and S&P BSE IT indices of the Bombay Stock Exchange. To achieve the objectives, the study uses descriptive statistics; tests including variance ratio, Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Phillips-Perron, and Kwiatkowski Phillips...

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- PART FOUR -- PART FIVE -- PART SIX -- PART SEVEN -- Notes -- Index -- The Great Bird Flu Blame Game -- The NAFTA Flu -- The Hog Industry Strikes Back -- The Political Virology of Offshore Farming -- Do Pathogens Time...

Im vorliegenden Abschlussbericht wird über die im Projektverbund "Klimawirkungen und Nachhaltigkeit ökologischer und konventioneller Betriebssysteme - Untersuchungen in einem Netzwerk von Pilotbetrieben" durchgeführten Arbeiten berichtet. Die Projekte werden im Rahmen des "Bundesprogramms...

Animal health is one of the key factors affecting the economic efficiency of the dairy industry and has important implications within an increasingly competitive marketplace. Despite the fact that the economic gains of ‘best practice’ with regard to animal health have been well documented,...

Im vorliegenden Abschlussbericht wird über die im Projektverbund "Klimawirkungen und Nachhaltigkeit ökologischer und konventioneller Betriebssysteme - Untersuchungen in einem Netzwerk von Pilotbetrieben" durchgeführten Arbeiten berichtet. Die Projekte werden im Rahmen des "Bundesprogramms...

Farmer and public roles in livestock disease management -- Economic determinants of farmer decision-making related to animal disease -- Insights from behavioural economics into farmer livestock disease management -- Issues of livestock disease management beyond the farm: Collective action, the...

Since its independence in 1975, the Union of Comoros has been deeply affected by political and institutional crises. Resolution of the separatist crisis on the island of Anjouan and subsequent national consolidation has constituted a historic turning point. The government has begun a...

China's livestock production sector is changing rapidly to meet a variety of challenges. At the same time, China's domestic consumers have begun to demand better quality and safer dietary protein sources; potential for international food market penetration has been compromised by food scandals;...

Visual presentation for the 2012 IAAE triennal conference.

[paper in French] In July 2008, the Peste des Petits Ruminants (Ovine rinderpest), a violent and destructive disease appeared for the first time in Morocco. The onset of the disease raised the interest of various stakeholders such as farmers, decision makers, foreign governments and...

The Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI) H5N2 virus was detected in the Dominican Republic (DR) late last year, causing a serious disruption in sub-regional trade, poultry production, and food security. In collaboration with the World Bank, the DR Secretariat of state for agriculture organized...