Greru, Chamithri, Thompson, Rebekah, Gowthaman, Vasudevan, Shanmugasundaram, Saranya, Ganesan, Nagaarjun, Murthy, T. R. Gopala Krishna, Eltholth, Mahmoud, Cole, Jennifer, Joshi, Jyoti, Runjala, Ravikiran, Nath, Madhumita, Hegde, Nagendra R., Williams, Nicola and Prendiville, Alison (2022) A visualisation tool to understand disease prevention and control practices of stakeholders working along the poultry supply chain in southern India. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9 (1). p. 169. ISSN 2662-9992
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Abstract
In this paper, we show how we developed a visualisation tool to challenge perceived notions about biosecurity on poultry farms. Veterinarians and veterinary public health professionals tend to present biosecurity measures as a universal and cost-effective solution for preventing and controlling diseases on farms. However, we illustrate how biosecurity is an ill-defined term, making it difficult to talk about or apply in practice. As a result, we demonstrate how we moved away from using the term biosecurity in our research by designing a visualisation tool. The tool was to allow us to open up dialogue around disease prevention and control, and make tangible the tacit situated practices of stakeholders working along the poultry supply chain. Our findings show that for those working along the poultry supply chain, the term biosecurity was either consistently open to interpretation, or too rigid to reflect or allow for local variations. We conclude by highlighting how our visualisation tool offers insights into why researchers must move beyond using biosecurity as a term, and instead envisage, design, and develop local solutions to prevent and control diseases on poultry farms.
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: The authors acknowledge support from UK Newton Fund awards co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council grant number ES/S000216/1 and the India Department of Biotechnology grant number BT/IN/Indo-UK/AMR/05/NH/2018-19. The focus group discussion was conducted at a workshop funded by a Research England GCRF Quality Research grant. |
| Subjects: | D400 Agriculture |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Rachel Branson |
| Date Deposited: | 24 May 2022 08:46 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2022 08:46 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/49180 |
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