Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXIII, Issue 2
Written by Gabriel Iuliu MALOȘ, Gabriela MALOȘ
The legitimacy of a state is the capacity to provide food security, that is to have sufficient availability of agricultural products and foods to cover the food needs for all inhabitants within its borders. Food security aims to ensure that everyone has access to as healthy a food as possible and ensures and respects the right of every person to a healthy and nutritionally balanced diet. Vulnerabilities in agriculture and the food industry can also be highlighted by identifying hazards, threats and risks, with African Swine Fever (ASF) in our case. ASF is a viral disease of domestic and wild pigs, with a rapid evolution and mortality of up to 100% for sick pigs. The occurrence and evolution of ASF (14779 outbreaks in the two years studied: 2018 and 2019) led at national level to the risk of the safety of pig meat being affected by the high number of animals that died, were euthanised or were slaughtered (approx. 2 million head), with a decrease of 31,6% in pig numbers in 2019 compared to 2017, it also helped to destabilize the pig meat market in quantitative terms, with the production of live-weight pigs falling by 210.777 tons (31,7%) in 2019 compared to 2017.To these losses are added significant costs for implementing control and quarantine measures, compensation (payment to breeders), etc.
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