Disease outbreaks in industrial animal agriculture are growing in scale, frequency and impact, compounded by climate change and an increasingly globalized and concentrated production system. But current biosecurity measures tend to accelerate a trend towards homogenous, standardised and less resilient systems. What would it look like to co-create biosecurity measures that account for the complexity of differing social, environmental, ethical and economic priorities? What do we need to do to achieve biosecurity in context and what are the structural barriers to achieving this?

Prof. Stephen Hinchliffe chaired this workshop with Prof. Nenene Qekwana (University of Pretoria), a vet and academic in South Africa, and Nathalia Brichet and Frida Hastrup (University of Copenhagen), social scientists in Denmark.