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Lessons learned for animal health governance from bovine viral diarrhea eradication schemes in Scotland and Ireland

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FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2022.956635

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bovine viral diarrhea (BVD); Ireland; Scotland; interviews (qualitative); governance; cattle; beef; dairy

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  1. Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science
  2. Analytical Services Division, as part of the Center of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks (EPIC
  3. Edinburgh, Scotland)

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This paper explores the lessons learned from bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) eradication schemes in Scotland and Ireland and applies the theoretical framework of co-productive governance to analyze stakeholder views. The results highlight the importance of clear goal narratives, engaging all actors, basing decisions on scientific research, and industry-government collaboration in achieving biosecurity goals.
This paper explores lessons learned for animal health governance from bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) eradication schemes in Scotland and Ireland, drawing on qualitative key stakeholder interviews. Bovine viral diarrhea is an endemic cattle disease that causes animal health and welfare problems, as well as financial losses to farmers. Initial voluntary industry-led schemes to eradicate BVD were introduced in both countries in the 2010s, followed by compulsory phases involving legislation. The paper uses a theoretical framework of co-productive governance to analyze stakeholder views on how well the design and execution of the eradication schemes worked and what can be learned to inform future directions of animal health governance. The term co-productive governance comes from the field of environmental governance and was developed to describe how science and politics influence each other in a context where governance is carried out by multiple actors working collaboratively. The results of key stakeholder interviews are analyzed using the concepts of vision, context, knowledge, and process. In relation to vision, the results show the importance of creating a clear narrative about the goal of disease eradication schemes, which may incorporate or replace existing vet or farmer narratives about a disease. With regard to context, it is difficult to engage all actors in biosecurity governance, when initiatives are developed with the legacy of existing relationships and tensions. In relation to knowledge, the results showed the importance but political complexity of basing decisions on scientific research. One of the lessons learned was the benefit of involving industry stakeholders in setting scientific questions to inform the design of the scheme. Additionally, with reference to the process, while interviewees were enthusiastic about future prospects for industry and government working together to achieve biosecurity goals co-productive governance is not a panacea for enrolling all actors in biosecurity goals. The results also highlighted that farmers and other actors might object to an eradication scheme, whether it is run by government or private industry. Thus, it is useful to keep questions about who benefits in what way from biosecurity governance open.

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