Journal article · 2024

Economical–epidemiological analysis of the coffee trees rust pandemic

Teddy Lazebnik, Ariel Rosenfeld and Labib Shami

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 34(11), 113112 Open access

Summary

Builds a high-resolution spatio-temporal economic-epidemiological model of how coffee leaf rust spreads across farms and what it costs. Simulations for Colombia indicate that sustaining profits is impractical without directly tackling the disease.

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Research theme

Crises, epidemics & resilience

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