Project description
Sustainable biosecurity management system in livestock farming
Infection transmission can occur through direct contact or indirectly through clothing, footwear, contaminated vehicles, air and so on. As animals, humans and production systems interact, a deep understanding of transmission routes is critical in designing effective biosecurity measures. The relative importance of these routes and the consequence of the linked biosecurity measures remain poorly understood, and at the same time it is difficult to rank measures by importance. The EU-funded BioSecure project will improve the understanding of central actors and decision-makers regarding terrestrial livestock production chains for pigs, poultry, cattle and small ruminants. The project intends to understand, prioritise and implement evidence-based, cost-effective and sustainable biosecurity management systems by creating a multi-actor stakeholder forum.
Objective
Given the multitude of interactions between animals, humans and production systems, a thorough understanding of infection transmission routes is key in designing good biosecurity measures. Transmission can occur via direct contact but also through a range of indirect routes such as clothing, footwear, contaminated vehicles, air etc. Although all these routes have been described, their relative importance and therefore the importance of the linked biosecurity measures are still poorly understood. Consequently, many of the current biosecurity guidelines are based on empirical evidence making it difficult to rank measures by importance.
The overarching goal of BioSecure is to improve the capacity for key actors and decision-makers in livestock farming to understand, prioritise and implement evidence-based, cost-effective and sustainable biosecurity management systems in current and future terrestrial livestock production chains for pigs, poultry, cattle and small ruminants. This will be achieved by:
• Setting up and facilitating a multi actor stakeholder forum to support interactive knowledge exchange, bottom-up behavioural change and uptake of the key exploitable results.
• Collecting existing biosecurity intelligence throughout the livestock production chain and creating biosecurity risk maps at an EU level for improving future risk analysis.
• Quantifying the impact of biosecurity practices through quantitative risk assessment and mathematical models as tools to quantify the probability of introduction and spread of pathogens at farm and sector level.
• Improving and extending biosecurity scoring tools for accurate measuring the level of biosecurity and providing adapted and science based advices.
• Evaluation and improvement of biosecurity measures through experiments and field studies.
• Assessing the socio-economic impact of biosecurity measures both at farm level and beyond.
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R93 Carlow
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1165 Kobenhavn
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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75189 Uppsala
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N41 NW27 CARRICK ON SHANNON
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75007 Paris
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31076 Toulouse
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40006 Segovia
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8720 Dentergem
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011464 Bucuresti
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51014 Tartu
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40126 Bologna
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1078 Budapest
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8830 Tjele
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3584 CS Utrecht
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9150 Kruibeke
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00153 Roma
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NG7 2RD Nottingham
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