An ex ante economic and policy analysis of biotechnology research for livestock disease resistance: Trypanosomosis in Africa
A range of diseases seriously constrains livestock development in Africa. Among these diseases, trypanosomosis is the most important. Annual direct and indirect losses from trypanosomosis have been estimated at over $5 billion. Conventional control options are either unavailable (e.g., vaccines), ex...
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International Service for National Agricultural Research
1999
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| author | Falconi, César A. Omamo, Steven Were d'Ieteren, Guy |
| author_browse | Falconi, César A. Omamo, Steven Were d'Ieteren, Guy |
| author_facet | Falconi, César A. Omamo, Steven Were d'Ieteren, Guy |
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| description | A range of diseases seriously constrains livestock development in Africa. Among these diseases, trypanosomosis is the most important. Annual direct and indirect losses from trypanosomosis have been estimated at over $5 billion. Conventional control options are either unavailable (e.g., vaccines), expensive (e.g., chemotherapy), or difficult to implement effectively (e.g., vector suppression). There is thus great interest in understanding and exploiting the inherited resistance to trypanosomosis of some livestock species. This paper undertakes an ex-ante economic analysis of biotechnology research on how disease resistance in trypanotolerant breeds can be maintained while enhancing characteristics of economic importance to farmers, and on how trypanotolerance can be conferred to susceptible animals while retaining their other important traits. The results indicate that benefits to research are more than five times costs and that the internal rate of return is more than double the real interest rate. However, these returns hinge on maintaining current levels of human resource allocations and strategic but relatively small capital investments. The results also suggest that further research is needed to consistently identify and track the impacts of alternative intellectual property rights options on the levels and distributions of biotechnology research benefits. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1364412025-01-09T06:04:09Z An ex ante economic and policy analysis of biotechnology research for livestock disease resistance: Trypanosomosis in Africa Falconi, César A. Omamo, Steven Were d'Ieteren, Guy organization of research A range of diseases seriously constrains livestock development in Africa. Among these diseases, trypanosomosis is the most important. Annual direct and indirect losses from trypanosomosis have been estimated at over $5 billion. Conventional control options are either unavailable (e.g., vaccines), expensive (e.g., chemotherapy), or difficult to implement effectively (e.g., vector suppression). There is thus great interest in understanding and exploiting the inherited resistance to trypanosomosis of some livestock species. This paper undertakes an ex-ante economic analysis of biotechnology research on how disease resistance in trypanotolerant breeds can be maintained while enhancing characteristics of economic importance to farmers, and on how trypanotolerance can be conferred to susceptible animals while retaining their other important traits. The results indicate that benefits to research are more than five times costs and that the internal rate of return is more than double the real interest rate. However, these returns hinge on maintaining current levels of human resource allocations and strategic but relatively small capital investments. The results also suggest that further research is needed to consistently identify and track the impacts of alternative intellectual property rights options on the levels and distributions of biotechnology research benefits. 1999-10 2024-01-04T07:49:08Z 2024-01-04T07:49:08Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136441 en Open Access application/pdf International Service for National Agricultural Research Falconi, César A., Omamo, Steven Were, d'Ieteren, Guy. 1999. An ex ante economic and policy analysis of biotechnology research for livestock disease resistance: Trypanosomosis in Africa. International Service for National Agricultural Research |
| spellingShingle | organization of research Falconi, César A. Omamo, Steven Were d'Ieteren, Guy An ex ante economic and policy analysis of biotechnology research for livestock disease resistance: Trypanosomosis in Africa |
| title | An ex ante economic and policy analysis of biotechnology research for livestock disease resistance: Trypanosomosis in Africa |
| title_full | An ex ante economic and policy analysis of biotechnology research for livestock disease resistance: Trypanosomosis in Africa |
| title_fullStr | An ex ante economic and policy analysis of biotechnology research for livestock disease resistance: Trypanosomosis in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | An ex ante economic and policy analysis of biotechnology research for livestock disease resistance: Trypanosomosis in Africa |
| title_short | An ex ante economic and policy analysis of biotechnology research for livestock disease resistance: Trypanosomosis in Africa |
| title_sort | ex ante economic and policy analysis of biotechnology research for livestock disease resistance trypanosomosis in africa |
| topic | organization of research |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136441 |
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