ABARES Economic Studies on Locust Control
ABARES has released a report produced for the APLC detailing the the economic benefits and costs of locust control carried out during the Australian plague locust infestation in spring 2010. The reports analyses the total costs of control of state government agencies and the APLC during spring and potential economic losses had control not been carried out.
View the ABARES report: Benefit-Cost analysis of locust control operations for 2010-2011
Previous (ABARE) reports produced for the APLC in 2005 and 2007, analysing economic costs and benefits of APLC locust control during the years 1999-2000 to 2004-2005 and a supplementary study of the costs and benefits of control in one locust generation on the potential impacts of a subsequent second generation are available below:
25 Mar 2011