Working with traders to understand livestock movements and spread of animal diseases in Cambodia and Lao PDR

摘要

This paper describes some outputs and insights from a project2 designed to better understand livestock movements in Cambodia and Lao PDR to better assess and predict the risk of trans-boundary animal disease spread throughout the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). The project focused on movements of cattle, buffaloes and pigs and the associated occurrence of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and classical swine fever (CSF). Information collected from livestock traders was crucial in understanding movement drivers, trading practices that influence disease risk and the significant unofficial livestock trade across country borders. This information was collected by Socheat Sieng and the original study is published elsewhere in these proceedings (see Socheat Sieng et al. 2012).