 Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) under current conditions poses a major risk to human and animal health. Efforts to contain the disease are therefore in national and global interest. As the most widely practiced control methods for poultry involve culling of birds that are infected. Early identification of HPAI and the immediate culling of diseased or suspected animals are critical elements of reducing the risk of the disease spreading.
Payment of compensation to farmers whose animals are being culled enhances producer cooperation through better motivation to comply with the disease reporting and culling requirements of disease control packages. The international community and national governments have responded to this challenge by establishing funding mechanisms to enable compensation to assist in this strategy.
The main objectives of the report are to discuss the purposes of compensation, review experience, link compensation practices to success in culling strategies, analyze how inappropriate compensation packages (such as in overcompensation) can create per-verse incentives, illustrate pitfalls and uncertainties, and develop recommendations based on observed good practice.
The paper will review issues and formulate rec-ommendations on the following items of good practice:
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Deciding who to compensate;
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types of losses to be compensated;
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setting the level and timeliness of compensation;
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promoting awareness, communication, and ca-pacity building;
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organizing payment while promoting account-ability; and
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shifting compensation strategies as the disease becomes endemic.
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