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Identifying the public health benefits of livestock-dependent, agro-ecosystems under climate change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2013

Shana Gillette
Shana Gillette*
Affiliation:
210 Diagnostic Medicine Center, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1644, USA
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E-mail: s.gillette@colostate.edu
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Abstract

As the demand for meat continues to grow in South Asia and Africa and access to communal sources of water and forage shrinks, intensification of small-scale livestock systems in peri-urban areas is expected to expand. In South East Asia, smallholder transition to livestock intensification has been transformative, increasing economic opportunities while also introducing new disease risks. While we have an understanding of the emerging disease burden from livestock intensification; we have just begun to understand the possible public health benefits of sustainable landscapes and the potential health savings accrued from disease avoidance. To date, few studies have attempted to quantify the health benefits attributable to sustainable agro-ecosystems, especially in regard to livestock systems. In this paper, I will examine what is needed to measure and communicate the public health benefits and cost-savings (from disease avoidance) of sustainable agro-ecosystems.

Keywords

public healthagro-ecosystems and livestocksustainabilitypastoralistssubsistence farmershealth savingscosts and benefits of health interventions
Type
Review Article
Information
Animal Health Research Reviews , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , December 2013 , pp. 155 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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