Cepea performs studies to evaluate economic and socioenvironmental impacts of health and plant health problems, as well as policies to prevent and control pests and diseases. Differently from most economic studies, the major challenge in this subject is the need to associate models of economic analysis to biological models, which describe dissemination patterns of diseases and pests.
Researchers have started to perform these studies by developing an instrument of economic analysis that could be applied, in general, to Pest Risk Analysis (PRA)
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