Avian influenza risk environment: live bird commodity chains in Chattogram, Bangladesh

Erling Høg, Guillaume Fournié, Md Ahasanul Hoque, Rashed Mahmud, Dirk U. Pfeiffer and Tony Barnett

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Abstract: In this paper, we identify behaviours in live bird commodity chains in Chattogram, Bangladesh, which may influence the risk of pathogen emergence and transmission: the nature of poultry trade, value appropriation and selling sick or infected birds. Examining the reasons why actors engage in these behaviours, we emphasise the politics of constraints within a context of real-world decisions, governed by existential and pragmatic agency. Focusing on contact zones and entanglement, analysing patron-client relationships and precarious circumstances, we argue that agency and structure specific to the Bangladeshi context produce a risk environment. Structural constraints may reinforce risky occupational practises and limit individual agency. Structural constraints need to be addressed in order to tackle animal and zoonotic disease risk along live animal commodity chains.

Keywords: agency-structure; anthropology; avian influenza; Bangladesh; commodity chains; risk environment; BB/L018993/1; BB/S011269/1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2021-09-20
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Published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 20, September, 2021, 8. ISSN: 2297-1769

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