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    Biosecurity and Yield Improvement Technologies Are Strategic Complements in the Fight against Food Insecurity

    David C. Cook; Rob W. Fraser; Dean R. Paini et al.

    PLoS ONE, Vol. 6 No. 10 · 2011 · English · PLOS Scopus

    The delivery of food security via continued crop yield improvement alone is not an effective food security strategy, and must be supported by pre- and post-border biosecurity policies to guard against perverse outcomes. In the wake of the green revolution, yield gains have been in steady decline…

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    Linking Climate Suitability, Spread Rates and Host-Impact When Estimating the Potential Costs of Invasive Pests

    Darren J. Kriticos; Agathe Leriche; David J. Palmer et al.

    PLoS ONE, Vol. 8 No. 2 · 2013 · English · PLOS Scopus

    Biosecurity agencies need robust bioeconomic tools to help inform policy and allocate scarce management resources. They need to estimate the potential for each invasive alien species (IAS) to create negative impacts, so that relative and absolute comparisons can be made. Using pine processionary…

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    Predicting the Benefits of Banana Bunchy Top Virus Exclusion from Commercial Plantations in Australia

    David C. Cook; Shuang Liu; Jacqueline Edwards et al.

    Public Library of Science · 2012 · English · PLOS Scopus

    Benefit cost analysis is a tried and tested analytical framework that can clearly communicate likely net changes in producer welfare from investment decisions to diverse stakeholder audiences. However, in a plant biosecurity context, it is often difficult to predict policy benefits over time due to…

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