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People matter in animal disease surveillance: Challenges and opportunities for the aquaculture sector

Recurring epidemics and the emergence of new aquatic diseases are increasingly threatening the growth of aquaculture. The fast pace of aquaculture development and on-going global environmental, social and economic change are challenging epidemiologists in their capacity to surveil and control the spread of diseases and avert losses to farmers and impacts on their livelihoods and environment. By placing farmers as the starting point of disease surveillance, we contend that farmer-based syndromic disease surveillance holds potential to overcome the current limitations of conventional disease surveillance, and demonstrate its relevance for aquaculture, particularly in resource constrained environments... Download Pdf Cecile Brugere , Dennis Mark Onuigbo , Kenton Ll. Morgan
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Oil Palm Policy, Land Use Change and Community Livelihoods (OLCL) in Indonesia: A Sustainability Framework

The global demand for crude palm oil (CPO) has  continuously increased with enormous economic benefits for  governments and producers. To maximize the benefits,  government policies have aimed at increasing CPO production  usually through increasing the total harvested area (THA).  However, increasing CPO production with the increase in THA  results in both land use and livelihood changes. Modeling the  complex relationship that exists between oil palm production  and issues of land use and livelihoods changes holds the key to  understanding their determinants and sustainability approach.  At this stage, the conceptual framework was developed with  targets of formulating evidence based policies with better  economic, environmental and social outcomes using a 24years  historic data with the simultaneous equations modeling  technique. download pdf
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