Biosecurity in context: CRILS Online Workshop

Disease outbreaks (zoonoses, AMR, epizootics and emerging infectious pathogens) in industrial animal agriculture are growing in scale, frequency and impact, compounded by climate change and an increasingly globalized and concentrated production system. The suitability and sustainability of biosecurity measures that promote standardised industrial animal agriculture is questionable, given the heterogenous farming systems and diverse social contexts that exist in reality. What would it look like to co-create biosecurity measures that account for the complexity of differing social, environmental, ethical and economic priorities? What do we need to do to achieve biosecurity in context and what are the structural barriers to achieving this? Prof. Stephen Hinchliffe will chair this workshop with Prof. Nenene Qekwana (University of Pretoria), who will present on his experiences as a vet and academic in South Africa, and Nathalia Brichet and Frida Hastrup (University of Copenhagen), who will present on the role of social sciences and their field work in Denmark in co-creating biosecurity measures in context.