Biosecurity and disease management in China’s animal agriculture sector

Wei, Xinjie; Lin, Wenwei; Hennessy, David A.

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.04.005

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“…Progress on farms can also be hampered due to a low awareness of animal welfare (both as a concept and on how this works in practice), and staff often have low technical skills, coupled with a high staff turnover. There is no effective management and infrastructure to collect information of on-farm practises at the government level [68], which will make encouraging, implementing and enforcing higher welfare practises very difficult. Another challenge for companies is that the marketing of products that are produced under higher welfare conditions is difficult with low consumer awareness of animal welfare.…”

Section: Pig Enrichment In Global Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Providing Effective Environmental Enrichment to Pigs: How Far Have We Come?

Weerd¹,

Ison

2019

Animals

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Science has defined the characteristics of effective environmental enrichment for pigs. We provide an overview of progress towards the provision of pig enrichment in the three largest global pork producing regions. In the USA, enrichment has not yet featured on the policy agenda, nor appeared on farms, except when required by certain farm assurance schemes. China has very limited legal animal welfare provisions and public awareness of animal welfare is very low. Food safety concerns severely restrict the use of substrates (as enrichment) on farms. Providing enrichment to pigs is a legal requirement in the EU. In practice, enrichment is not present, or simple (point-source) objects are provided which have no enduring value. Other common issues are the provision of non-effective or hazardous objects, inadequate presentation, location, quantity and size or inadequate maintenance of enrichment. Improvements can be made by applying principles from the field of experimental analysis of behaviour to evaluate the effectiveness of enrichment; providing welfare knowledge transfer, including training and advisory services; highlighting the economic benefits of effective enrichment and focusing on return on investment; increasing pressure from the financial sector; using novel drivers of change, such as public business benchmarking. The poor implementation of scientific knowledge on farms suggests that the pig industry has not fully embraced the benefits of effective enrichment and is still a long way off achieving an enriched pig population.

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Section: Pig Enrichment In Global Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Providing Effective Environmental Enrichment to Pigs: How Far Have We Come?

Weerd¹,

Ison

2019

Animals

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“…A list of notifiable human infectious diseases has been established for monitoring and reporting under the Law of Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases [ 55 ]. Similarly, the veterinary department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has developed a list of animal epidemic diseases for regular monitoring and reporting, and measures for the administration, investigation, evaluation, and contingency plans of animal epidemics [ [56] , [57] , [58] , [59] , [60] , [61] , [62] , [63] , [64] ]. Technical guidance or standard documents for specific animal epidemics are also developed and distributed by the veterinary department on a regular basis [ 65 , 66 ].…”

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Wild animal and zoonotic disease risk management and regulation in China: Examining gaps and One Health opportunities in scope, mandates, and monitoring systems

Chen

Machalaba

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One Health

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Emerging diseases of zoonotic origin such as COVID-19 are a continuing public health threat in China that lead to a significant socioeconomic burden. This study reviewed the current laws and regulations, government reports and policy documents, and existing literature on zoonotic disease preparedness and prevention across the forestry, agriculture, and public health authorities in China, to articulate the current landscape of potential risks, existing mandates, and gaps. A total of 55 known zoonotic diseases (59 pathogens) are routinely monitored under a multi-sectoral system among humans and domestic and wild animals in China. These diseases have been detected in wild mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish or other aquatic animals, the majority of which are transmitted between humans and animals via direct or indirect contact and vectors. However, this current monitoring system covers a limited scope of disease threats and animal host species, warranting expanded review for sources of disease and pathogen with zoonotic potential. In addition, the governance of wild animal protection and utilization and limited knowledge about wild animal trade value chains present challenges for zoonotic disease risk assessment and monitoring, and affect the completeness of mandates and enforcement. A coordinated and collaborative mechanism among different departments is required for the effective monitoring and management of disease emergence and transmission risks in the animal value chains. Moreover, pathogen surveillance among wild animal hosts and human populations outside of the routine monitoring system will fill the data gaps and improve our understanding of future emerging zoonotic threats to achieve disease prevention. The findings and recommendations will advance One Health collaboration across government and non-government stakeholders to optimize monitoring and surveillance, risk management, and emergency responses to known and novel zoonotic threats, and support COVID-19 recovery efforts.

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“…Since de-collectivisation of farms and privatisation of former state-owned farms, farmers have become responsible for decisions on animal health management and disease control. However, agricultural modernisation continues to address on-going outbreaks of different diseases, such as Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome 5 (PRRS) (Wei et al, 2015). Chinese observers believe that the PRRS outbreak was first started in "backyards, smallholdings and medium-scale pig farms and then spread to intensive [commercial] pig farms" (Zhou and Yang, 2010, p32).…”

Section: Suzhi and Animal Healthmentioning

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The Suzhi farmer: Constructing and contesting farming Subjectivities in post-Socialist China

Chan

Enticott

2019

Journal of Rural Studies

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This paper analyses the use of the cultural convention of suzhi in attempts to improve biosecurity practices in the Chinese pig industry. Suzhi loosely refers to 'quality' and has been used to define the appropriate conduct of citizens during the era of market reforms. Like other forms of agricultural governmentality, suzhi provides a way of distinguishing 'good farming' and creating entrepreneurial subjectivities. However, in other policy areas, suzhi has been shown to marginalise the poor and reinforce social inequalities. This paper examines the extent to which discourses of suzhi in a biosecurity context contributes to the use of preventive animal health practices, amongst pig farmers in Chongming Island, Shanghai. Drawing on documentary evidence and interviews with 33 farm animal breeders and 3 pig veterinary surgeons, the paper examines how suzhi contributes to the creation of 'good farming' subjectivities in order to modernise the animal health practices of pig farmers. The paper shows how suzhi contributes to the valourisation and stigmatization of different pig farming subjectivities, suggesting that it reinforces existing socio-economic inequalities. Moreover, the paper describes the ways in which modes of conduct associated with suzhi are negotiated and challenged and reduced to a symbolic 'cloak' that disguises the reality of preventive animal health practices.1 It is one of the primary objectives of the 11 th Five-Year (2006-10) policy program to develop the Chinese countryside with advanced production, a comfortable livelihood, a civilised lifestyle, clean and tidy villages and democratic administration. This program aims at combining agricultural modernisation, rural governance innovation, the expansion of social welfare, the strengthening of rural education and fiscal reform (See also in Schubert and Ahlers, 2012, p70). 2 This is a policy to improve rural people livelihoods and transform Chinese villages into well-off and civilised places. 3 The discourse of 'Building of Beautiful China' is emphasised by the 18 th National Congress of the Central Planning Commission. It is defined as "the sum of the beauty of the environment, the beauty of the times, the beauty of life, the beauty of society and the beauty of common people" (See Marlinelli, 2018, p14).

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Biosecurity and disease management in China’s animal agriculture sector

Cited by 19 publications

References 29 publications

Providing Effective Environmental Enrichment to Pigs: How Far Have We Come?

Providing Effective Environmental Enrichment to Pigs: How Far Have We Come?

Wild animal and zoonotic disease risk management and regulation in China: Examining gaps and One Health opportunities in scope, mandates, and monitoring systems

The Suzhi farmer: Constructing and contesting farming Subjectivities in post-Socialist China

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