An ecohealth assessment of poultry production clusters (PPCs) for the livelihood and biosecurity improvement of small poultry producers in Asia

作     者：Libin Wang Edi Basuno Tuan Nguyen Worapol Aengwanich Nyak Ilham Xiaoyun Li 

作者机构：College of Humanities and Development StudiesChina Agricultural UniversityQinghua Donglu 17Beijing 100083China Indonesian Center for Agriculture Socio Economic and Policy StudiesJ1 Ahmad Yani 7016161 BogorIndonesia Center for Agricultural PolicyInstitute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentHanoiVietnam Faculty of Veterinary SciencesMahasarakham UniversityMaha Sarakham 440000Thailand 

出 版 物：《Infectious Diseases of Poverty》 (贫困所致传染病（英文）)

年 卷 期：2015年第4卷第1期

页      面：49-57页

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学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 

基　　金：This research was funded by the Ecohealth Emerging Infectious Diseases Initiative(EcoEID) which is a CA$8.9 million global effort funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre Foreign Affairs Trade and Development Canada(through the Global Health Research Initiative) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 

主　　题：Poultry production cluster(PPC) Small producers Biosecurity Infectious diseases Livelihood Ecohealth 

摘      要：Background:Poultry production cluster(PPC)programs are key strategies in many Asian countries to engage small commercial poultry producers in high-value production chains and to control infectious poultry *** study assessed the multiple impacts of PPCs through a transdisciplinary ecohealth approach in four Asian countries,and drew the implications for small producers to improve their livelihoods and reduce the risk of spreading infectious diseases in the poultry ***:The data collection combined both quantitative and qualitative *** comprised:formal structured household survey questionnaires,measuring the biosecurity level of poultry farms with a biosecurity score card;and key informant *** statistics were used to process the quantitative data and a content analysis was used to process the qualitative ***:This research found that poultry farms in clusters do not necessarily have better economic performance than those outside *** farmers in PPCs only consider them to be an advantage for expanding the scale of their poultry operations and improving household incomes,and they are less concerned about-and have limited capacities to-enhancing biosecurity and environmental *** measured the biosecurity level of farms in PPCs through a 14-item checklist and found that biosecurity is generally very low across all sample *** increased flies,mosquitoes,rats,and smells in and around PPCs not only pollute the environment,but also cause social conflicts with the surrounding ***:This research concluded that a poultry cluster,mainly driven by economic objectives,is not necessarily a superior model for the control of infectious *** level of biosecurity in PPCs was found to be *** the intensity of poultry operations in PPCs(farms are densely packed into clusters),and the close proximity to residential areas of some PPCs,the risk of spreading infectious diseases,in fact,incre