Chronic Wasting Disease and the Canadian Agriculture and Agri-food Sectors: Current Knowledge, Risks and Policy Options
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) presents real risks to trade in agricultural products, for food security among Northern, remote, and First Nations communities and the future of all cervids including already threatened species such as the Boreal Caribou, not to mention the potential risks of human transmission.
CAPI commissioned a study by University of Alberta economists, Dr. Vic Adamowicz and Dr. Ellen Goddard and colleagues, to undertake an analysis of CWD developments and the policy measures needed to prevent the spread and transmission of this horrific disease throughout the Prairie provinces, as well as its potential risks and impacts on the Canadian agriculture and agri-food sector.