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1365: Animal and plant disease policy

This paper is summarised from Briefing No14 ‘Growing concerns: Animal and plant disease policy for the 21st century by Anne Liddon of the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme

Year of Publication2011

Animal and plant disease policy needs a radical rethink from basic principles, and risk analysis must be more widely based, incorporating socioeconomic evidence. In an ideal world, we would begin again with a blank sheet, and map disease within the context of our current commercial, social and cultural realities. We would challenge established ideas, question our motivation for intervening in disease, consider whether producers should be given full responsibility for production losses, and carry out cost benefit analyses across the whole range of diseases.

This item is categorised as follows

• Subject Collection > Livestock & dairy
• Subject Collection > Livestock & dairy > Animal health & welfare
• Subject Collection > Arable & industrial crops > Pest & disease control

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