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The Economics Of Animal And Plant Quarantine, Pest/Disease SurveillanceCourse Available by Arrangement Only. Group Discounts are available.
Course AimsTrade carries the risk of the spread of exotic and harmful pests and diseases. Quarantine and plant surveillance programs aim to detect the presence of such pests and diseases. Detection allows measures to be taken to prevent or limit adverse health effects consumers and to eradicate organisms that may otherwise impose heavy costs on local agricultural production and ecological systems. The key objective of quarantine and plant surveillance activities is the ‘early detection’ of an exotic pest or diseases either at the border or before damages and management costs become too severe. However, quarantine and plant surveillance activities can be costly depending on how quickly policy makers aim to detect a potential incursion, the cost of the program themselves and the potential losses that go with restricting trade in goods and services. Course OutlineThis course examines the economies of quarantine and plant surveillance programs. In particular, it provides a framework to determine the optimal level of expenditure on these programs balancing the risk of an incursion, the cost of the programs themselves and the potential production and health costs that result from an undetected or late detection of a harmful pest or disease. Participants will gain a clear understanding of the appropriate policy responses to the possible spread of exotic pests and diseases from an economic point of view as well as the measures that should be put into place to minimize the economic losses from their occurrence. The course includes a basic economic toolkit and will cover topics such as, the Biological Relationship and the Nature of Risk, the Economic Approach to Quarantine and Plant Surveillance Programs, the Costs and Benefits of Government Programs, case studies (that include Foot and Mouth Disease, Ovine Johne and the Papua Fruit Fly) and policy response and implementation. The ConvenerDr Tom Kompas is a leader in both research and policy formulation in the field of agricultural and resource economics. He has had over 30 of his professional papers and technical reports published, and is currently Director of the International and Development Economics Program at the Crawford school of Economics and Government. He is associate editor of the Australian Journal of Agriculture and Resource Economics. |
