Economic Aspects of Agricultural and Food Biosecurity

David Hennessy

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Concerns about biosecurity in the food system raise a variety of issues about how the system is presently organized, why it might be vulnerable, what we could reasonably do to better secure it, and the costs of doing so. Emphasizing the role of incentives in efficient resource allocation, this article considers economic dimensions of three aspects of the general problem. One is the global problem, or the way biosecurity measures can affect how countries relate to each other and the global consequences that result. Another is how to best manage the immediate aftermath of a realized threat in order to minimize damage. The third is how to seek to prevent realization of the threat. Some policy alternatives are presented.

Date: 2012-03-29
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Published in , April 2008, vol. 6 no. 1, pp. 66-77

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