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Epidemiology sustaining rural livelihoods into the new millennium

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Publication date
25/05/1998
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Studies
Focus Region:
Asia and the Pacific
Focus Topic:
Health & Diseases
Type of Risk:
Biological & environmental
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk assessment
Commodity:
Crops
Source
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/RLAquaR7051Note.pdf
Author
Corsin, F.; Turnbull, J.F.; Hao, N.V.; Mohan, C.V.; Morgan, K.L.

This brief note describes the role of epidemiology in sustaining rural livelihoods, using as an example a study on the epidemiology of white spot disease of prawns which affects communities in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, practising a centuries’ old sustainable system of integrated rice-shrimp farming. White spot disease means damage to the farming system, nutritional deficiency, financial loss, social upheaval and increased vulnerability.