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PLOS ONE | 2012

Predicting the benefits of banana bunchy top virus exclusion from commercial plantations in Australia.

David C. Cook; Shuang Liu; Jacqueline Edwards; Oscar N. Villalta; Jean-Philippe Aurambout; Darren J. Kriticos; A. Drenth; Paul J. De Barro

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 complex biophysical interactions between invasive species, their hosts, and the environment. In this paper, we demonstrate how a break-even style benefit cost analysis remains highly relevant to biosecurity decision-makers using the example of banana bunchy top virus, a plant pathogen targeted for eradication from banana growing regions of Australia. We develop an analytical approach using a stratified diffusion spread model to simulate the likely benefits of exclusion of this virus from commercial banana plantations over time relative to a nil management scenario in which no surveillance or containment activities take place. Using Monte Carlo simulation to generate a range of possible future incursion scenarios, we predict the exclusion benefits of the disease will avoid Aus


Food Security | 2016

A bio-economic ‘war game’ model to simulate plant disease incursions and test response strategies at the landscape scale

David C. Cook; Jean-Philippe Aurambout; Oscar N. Villalta; Shuang Liu; Jacqueline Edwards; Savi Maharaj

15.9-27.0 million in annual losses for the banana industry. For these exclusion benefits to be reduced to zero would require a bunchy top re-establishment event in commercial banana plantations three years in every four. Sensitivity analysis indicates that exclusion benefits can be greatly enhanced through improvements in disease surveillance and incursion response.


Australasian Plant Pathology | 2015

Assessment of pathogenicity and infection requirements of Monilinia species causing brown rot of stone fruit in Australian orchards

Simone Kreidl; Jacqueline Edwards; Oscar N. Villalta

Loss of area freedom from invasive alien species can have serious food security implications and place huge responsibility on incursion response managers. They make critical decisions despite profound uncertainty surrounding invasion ecology, surveillance and control technology effectiveness and human behaviour. We propose a spatially-explicit model that can aid response managers in devising and testing management strategies in a virtual world where the costs of failure are negligible. We apply the model in a group-based decision setting in which participants practise responding to fictional disease incursions in a pome fruit production area in Australia. Using the model, the response management group was able to develop mutually satisfactory rules of thumb for the use of quarantine and destruction zones and for when to withdraw resources from eradication efforts.


Crop Protection | 2013

Predicted economic impact of black Sigatoka on the Australian banana industry

David C. Cook; Shuang Liu; Jacqueline Edwards; Oscar N. Villalta; Jean-Philippe Aurambout; Darren J. Kriticos; A. Drenth; Paul J. De Barro


Ecological Economics | 2015

A structured war-gaming framework for managing extreme risks

Shuang Liu; Jean-Philippe Aurambout; Oscar N. Villalta; Jacqueline Edwards; Paul J. De Barro; Darren J. Kriticos; David C. Cook


Australasian Plant Disease Notes | 2014

In vitro suppression of Sclerotinia minor by a seaweed extract from Durvillaea potatorum and Ascophyllum nodosum

Scott W. Mattner; Oscar N. Villalta; Denise Wite; Ian Porter; Tony Arioli


Advancing risk assessment models to address climate change, economics and uncertainty. IPRMW Sixth Annual Workshop, Tromsø, Norway, 23-26 July 2012. | 2013

An assessment of the benefits of yellow Sigatoka (Mycosphaerella musicola) control in the Queensland Northern Banana Pest Quarantine Area

David C. Cook; Shuang Liu; Jacqueline Edwards; Oscar N. Villalta; Jean‑Philippe Aurambout; Darren J. Kriticos; A. Drenth; Paul J. De Barro


Archive | 2002

Development of biological controls for Sclerotinia diseases of horticultural crops in Australasia

Ian Porter; Hoong Pung; Oscar N. Villalta; Rosa Crnov; Alison Stewart; Agriculture Victoria


Científica | 2018

Etiology, epidemiology, and management of white rot on onion and garlic: current knowledge and future directions for Brazil

Valdir Lourenço; Bruno Sérgio Vieira; Everaldo Antônio Lopes; Oscar N. Villalta


Australasian Plant Pathology | 2018

Biosecurity tool-set: optimising quarantine zones for eradication through consideration of Australia’s success with plant pathogen eradications in horticulture

Oscar N. Villalta; M. Mebalds; Jacqueline Edwards

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David C. Cook

University of Western Australia

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Shuang Liu

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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Darren J. Kriticos

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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Paul J. De Barro

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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A. Drenth

University of Queensland

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