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Agriculture in crisis: policy analysis and cow-calf producer behaviour in the aftermath of the Canadian BSE events
DownloadSpring 2010
The bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis was a significant shock to the Canadian agricultural sector. On May 20, 2003, it was announced that an animal infected with BSE had been identified. The economic aftermath of this discovery was described as “horrendous” (AGO, 2004). Economic...
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An input-output analysis of the economic impacts of chronic wasting disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Alberta and Canada
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This thesis utilizes input-output analysis to calculate the economic impacts from potential prion diseases outbreaks in Alberta and Canada. Both chronic wasting disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy have the capacity to not only affect the farmed cervid and cattle industries, but to impact...