Understanding the roles of economy and society in the relative risks of zoonosis emergence from livestock

Hinchliffe, Stephen; Blanchette, Alex; Chan, Kin Wing (Ray); Degeling, Chris; Emel, Jody; Leach, Melissa; Scoones, Ian; Winter, Michael

doi:10.1098/rsos.231709

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Illuminating the care/repair nexus in the ‘pandemic era’, and the potential for care beyond repair in Danish poultry production

Rutt,

Møller

2024

Agric Hum Values

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Examining the Danish poultry industry in a time of rising outbreaks of infectious disease (the so-called ‘pandemic era’) including avian influenza, this study documents the often-unseen harms resulting from current dominant forms of response. Inspired by multispecies studies and ethnography, we pay attention to entangled human and more-than-human worlds. Specifically, we document the multifarious ways in which responses to worsening avian influenza alter the everyday lives of birds in production, their farmers, and public veterinarians. We also show how such changes are distributed in ways that further slant the playing field against smaller scale and organic poultry production, under the hegemony of globalized capitalist agriculture. Throughout, we shed light on the analytical purchase of two key concepts in feminist scholarship and science and technology studies respectively: care and repair. While understood as integral to human and more-than-human wellbeing, care’s tendency to summon pleasant associations is challenged by the reality of embodied care practices in complex and compromised socio-ecological contexts. Repair has been wielded conceptually to interrogate activities that stabilize systems at risk, while largely ignoring or even exacerbating the drivers of instability. Mobilized together, we can better understand how hegemonic logics delimit possibilities for care, but also the limits and limitations of dominant response repertoires. Finally, we illuminate farming practices of care beyond repair, which may help chart alternatives for Danish agriculture within, and perhaps beyond, the pandemic era.

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Illuminating the care/repair nexus in the ‘pandemic era’, and the potential for care beyond repair in Danish poultry production

Rutt,

Møller

2024

Agric Hum Values

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Environmental, social and governance (ESG) in agriculture: trends and gaps on research

Leite de Almeida,

Dale,

Hay

et al. 2024

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management

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Modeling the benefits of virus discovery and pandemic virus identification

Jeyapragasan,

Graabak,

Luby

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Preventing and mitigating future zoonotic pandemics are global health priorities, but there are few quantitative estimates of how best to target interventions. Here we construct a mathematical model to evaluate the benefits of 1) virus discovery and sequencing (VDS) in animals and 2) pandemic virus identification (PVI) via laboratory characterization of pandemic potential. Drawing on historical data and expert surveys of One Health and vaccine researchers, we estimate that intensifying virus discovery efforts by three-fold could prevent between 0 and 1.46 million expected deaths per decade by improving non-pharmaceutical interventions and broad-spectrum vaccines. In contrast, because researchers estimate that there are well over a hundred pandemic-capable viruses in nature, identification through laboratory characterization would prevent 48,000 deaths per decade [10,500; 93,600], or just ∼0.62% of expected pandemic deaths. Further identifications would offer diminishing returns. Given wide-ranging survey responses and limited cost-effectiveness compared to proven global health interventions such as insecticide-treated bed nets, our model suggests that health establishments aiming to mitigate future pandemics should focus on monitoring spillover hotspots and empowering local communities to detect, sequence, and suppress nascent epidemics rather than characterizing pandemic potential in laboratories.

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Understanding the roles of economy and society in the relative risks of zoonosis emergence from livestock

Cited by 3 publications

References 132 publications

Illuminating the care/repair nexus in the ‘pandemic era’, and the potential for care beyond repair in Danish poultry production

Illuminating the care/repair nexus in the ‘pandemic era’, and the potential for care beyond repair in Danish poultry production

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) in agriculture: trends and gaps on research

Modeling the benefits of virus discovery and pandemic virus identification

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