Sede de la FAO, Roma, 14/11/2006

Conjuntamente con la 21a. Reunión del Grupo Intergubernamental sobre la Carne y los Productos Lácteos se celebró un simposio con el título:

"Las repercusiones de la prevención y el control de la gripe aviar en el mercado y el comercio"

para dar a los expertos y a las autoridades la oportunidad de examinar cuestiones clave que afectan a las industrias internacionales de la carne.

Papers and presentations

Market impact of avian influenza: theory and practise

• Impact of AI on global markets: an overview (Nancy Morgan - FAO)
• A framework for identifying market and trade impacts of HPAI and its control: theory and empirical findings (Martin Upton - Reading University)
• How do markets respond to disease outbreaks? The differential impact on market participants. Case study presentations (Egypt)
• Case study Turkey
• The hidden costs: impact on livelihoods and households (John Curry, FAO)
• "HPAI: Importance of the crisis, challenges un prevention and control and FAO's response" (J Domenech, J Lubroth, V Martin, FAO, Animal Health Service)
• Policy responses
• Policy choices and institutional options: how do they affect disease costs (Jonathan Rushton, FAO)
• Public/Private Sector Linkages: Issues in maintaining markets for large and small poultry operations. What are the trade-offs? (Robert Burden, Serecon Consulting Company, Canada)

International trade dimensions of animal disease control

• Impact of animal disease on international markets (Merritt Cluff, FAO)
• The risk of AI transmission through breeding stock (Alan Emsley, USA)
• What are the policies needed to minimize market disruption (Sarah Kahn, Head of International Trade Department, OIE)
• Effective communication: a tool for minimizing disruptive market impacts (Katalin DeBalogh , FAO, Animal Health Service)

"Best market practises in mitigating market and trade impacts of animal disease" (Perspective of Panel of Experts)

• Robert Burden (Serecon Consulting Company, Canada)
• Alan Emsley (USA)
• Frands Dolberg (University of Aarhus, Denmark)