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Investigating the Socio-Economic and Livelihoods Impacts of African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste: An Application of Spatial Group Model Building

Small-scale pig farming is highly important to the economic and social status of households in Timor-Leste. The presence of an African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak in Timor-Leste was confirmed in 2019, a major concern given that around 70% of agricultural households practice pig farming. This research...

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Autores principales: Berends, Jared, Bendita da Costa Jong, Joanita, Cooper, Tarni Louisa, Dizyee, Kanar, Morais, Olavio, Pereira, Abrão, Smith, Dominic, Rich, Karl M.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8636599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34869709
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.687708
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author Berends, Jared
Bendita da Costa Jong, Joanita
Cooper, Tarni Louisa
Dizyee, Kanar
Morais, Olavio
Pereira, Abrão
Smith, Dominic
Rich, Karl M.
author_facet Berends, Jared
Bendita da Costa Jong, Joanita
Cooper, Tarni Louisa
Dizyee, Kanar
Morais, Olavio
Pereira, Abrão
Smith, Dominic
Rich, Karl M.
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description Small-scale pig farming is highly important to the economic and social status of households in Timor-Leste. The presence of an African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak in Timor-Leste was confirmed in 2019, a major concern given that around 70% of agricultural households practice pig farming. This research used a virtual spatial group model building process to construct a concept model to better understand the main feedback loops that determine the socio-economic and livelihood impacts of the ASF outbreak. After discussing the interaction of reinforcing and balancing feedback loops in the concept model, potential leverage points for intervention are suggested that could reduce the impacts of ASF within socio-economic spheres. These include building trust between small-scale farmers and veterinary technicians, strengthening government veterinary services, and the provision of credit conditional on biosecurity investments to help restock the industry. This conceptual model serves as a starting point for further research and the future development of a quantitative system dynamics (SD) model which would allow ex-ante scenario-testing of various policy and technical mitigation strategies of ASF outbreaks in Timor-Leste and beyond. Lessons learned from the blended offline/online approach to training and workshop facilitation are also explored in the paper.
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spelling pubmed-86365992021-12-03 Investigating the Socio-Economic and Livelihoods Impacts of African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste: An Application of Spatial Group Model Building Berends, Jared Bendita da Costa Jong, Joanita Cooper, Tarni Louisa Dizyee, Kanar Morais, Olavio Pereira, Abrão Smith, Dominic Rich, Karl M. Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science Small-scale pig farming is highly important to the economic and social status of households in Timor-Leste. The presence of an African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak in Timor-Leste was confirmed in 2019, a major concern given that around 70% of agricultural households practice pig farming. This research used a virtual spatial group model building process to construct a concept model to better understand the main feedback loops that determine the socio-economic and livelihood impacts of the ASF outbreak. After discussing the interaction of reinforcing and balancing feedback loops in the concept model, potential leverage points for intervention are suggested that could reduce the impacts of ASF within socio-economic spheres. These include building trust between small-scale farmers and veterinary technicians, strengthening government veterinary services, and the provision of credit conditional on biosecurity investments to help restock the industry. This conceptual model serves as a starting point for further research and the future development of a quantitative system dynamics (SD) model which would allow ex-ante scenario-testing of various policy and technical mitigation strategies of ASF outbreaks in Timor-Leste and beyond. Lessons learned from the blended offline/online approach to training and workshop facilitation are also explored in the paper. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8636599/ /pubmed/34869709 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.687708 Text en Copyright © 2021 Berends, Bendita da Costa Jong, Cooper, Dizyee, Morais, Pereira, Smith and Rich. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Veterinary Science
Berends, Jared
Bendita da Costa Jong, Joanita
Cooper, Tarni Louisa
Dizyee, Kanar
Morais, Olavio
Pereira, Abrão
Smith, Dominic
Rich, Karl M.
Investigating the Socio-Economic and Livelihoods Impacts of African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste: An Application of Spatial Group Model Building
title Investigating the Socio-Economic and Livelihoods Impacts of African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste: An Application of Spatial Group Model Building
title_full Investigating the Socio-Economic and Livelihoods Impacts of African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste: An Application of Spatial Group Model Building
title_fullStr Investigating the Socio-Economic and Livelihoods Impacts of African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste: An Application of Spatial Group Model Building
title_full_unstemmed Investigating the Socio-Economic and Livelihoods Impacts of African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste: An Application of Spatial Group Model Building
title_short Investigating the Socio-Economic and Livelihoods Impacts of African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste: An Application of Spatial Group Model Building
title_sort investigating the socio-economic and livelihoods impacts of african swine fever in timor-leste: an application of spatial group model building
topic Veterinary Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8636599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34869709
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.687708
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