GRF 2nd One Health Summit 2013: Presentation by Ric Van Poll, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)

1. Intensive Animal
Husbandry: A
Societal Concern?
An exploration
Ric van Poll
Marleen Kraaij
Erik Lebret
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3. Domains RIVM
● Public Health and Care
● Environment and Safety
● Infectious disease and Vaccins
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4. Tasks
− Policy advice
− National coordination
− Prevention- and intervention
programs
− Information for professionals
and citizens
− Research and knowledge
development
− Advice to inspectorates
− Emergency response
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5. MEGA FARMS

6. Intensive Animal Husbandry

7. „The risk‟ & the Dutch Debate
Item
Surface of the Netherlands
Dutch population
Cows
Pigs
Chickens
Sheep/ goats
Amount in 2010/ 2011
41, 500 km²
16.7 million people
4 million 33.000 companies
12 million 7.000 companies
100 million 2.400 companies
1.1 million 13.000 companies

8. Defining MEGA-farms
● Number of mega farms
– 2009
› About 250 – 400
● Ruimtelijke spreiding
● NGE (Nederlandse Grootte
Eenheden)
– >300 is large
› 2000: 334
› 2009: 660
– >500 is MEGA
› 2.000 sows or 12.500 pigs or
185.000 laying-hens or 360.000
chicks. (MNP (PBL), Raden voor Landelijk gebied;
Dieraangelegenheden, RIVM)
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9. Exploration
● Explorative literaturereview (mainly „grey
literature‟)
● Web-sites
● Neighbouring countries
● Interviews with key-informants
(for public-health decision-making or experts on
risk governance)

10. Policy: Sustainable and suitable
Public
Health
Animal
Welfare
Manure
Sustainable Animal husbandry
Norms
Anti
biotics
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11. Multi-dimensioneel concept
Law
Zoönose
s
Animal
Welfare
Health
Concept
Environ
ment
Ethics
Economi
cs
Spatial
Food
safety
Light
Anti
biotics
Air poll
Noise
Malodor
Health
Living
environm
ent
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Animal/
Human
Infectiou
s
diseases

12. Stakeholders
NGO‟s
Research
inst
Political
parties
Stake
holders
Trade
associatio
n
Bank
Agricultural
partners
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13. Stakeholders
Impact?
Relationships?
Agenda?
Interests?

14. Findings
Uncertainty
Lack of clarity
Which risks?
Concerns about health How large are the risks?
risks related to IAPS Which options to decrease
(risk)
risks?
Now and in the future.
Trust
Is there (easy access to)
trustworthy and sufficient
information on risk and control
options?
Do industrial agricultural
partners and/ or governmental
Concerns about
Alienation from animal
actors really put public health
industrial agricultural
husbandry; (perceived) lack of interests before economic
sector
transparency and visibility
interests?
(activity causing risk)
Image/ visibility of partners.
Concerns about risk
management
(process to manage
risk)
Who is responsible for (which
part of) the risk management?
How is this responsibility
taken?
Aim of risk management
process?
Does the right actor feel
responsible and show
responsibility?
Transparency/ visibility of risk
governance process.

15. Alltogether
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Defining
Multidimensional Character
Diversity stakeholders
Discussion chaotic
More quantification
Concern
– Uncertainty
– Trust
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16. Preliminary recomandations
Managment
● Integrated risk assessment and
management could improve risk
governance (incl. framing and concern
assessements)
● Structure debate: differentiate
concerns, also at national and local level
● Explicit leadership (public-private
partnerships)
● Develop a shared research agenda
addressing stakeholder concerns as start
of participatory risk appraisal process.
Research
● Development of (methodologically sound)
frameworks applicable at national and
local levels to incorporate concerns and
perceptions of stakeholders in policymaking and communication.
● Development of (validated) tools to
perform “real-time” concerns assessment
(social media?)
● Research adressing „trust among
stakeholders‟, „trust in information‟ and
„trust in riskgovernance‟ (to support
constructive discussions)
● Elicit beliefs of stakeholders and their
suggestions to the future of agricultural
practice in the Netherlands to also gain
insights in risk acceptance and
tolerability.
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17. IRGC
Framework
RIVM
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18. To conclude: agenda setting
●
Intensive animal husbandry/ mega farms
1. Risk Assessment
– RIVM-internal strategic theme: Public Health and Environment (Sustainability)
› Uniting theme
2. Risk Appraisal
– RA en CA
› Uniting and broading scope: social sciences, RIVM-internal
3. Pre-assessment – Risk Appraisal – Risk Characterisation
4. Integrated Assessment
– 3 INCLUDING other aspects: economics, law, Spatial planning et cetera
› RIVM-extern
● Integrated assessment
● Co-creation
● Appraisal Framework – Deliberation Tool based CBA MCA/MAU
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19. Thank you!
● Ric van Poll
● Marleen Kraaij
● Erik Lebret
– ric.van.poll@rivm.nl
– 31 (0)30 274 43 89
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