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This biosecurity policy brief has been compiled following engagement with industry stakeholders and crofters. The research team has held an online living lab meeting with a diverse group of stakeholders. In addition five in person workshops were held on Lewis and Harris with 35 participants. These meetings gathered reflections on the understanding of biosecurity, barriers to use and external disease risk to livestock, Scottish Government

Report following five workshops with Crofters on Lewis and Harris to further our understanding of sheep keepers’ attitudes to sheep scab and roundworm control. The workshops also explored participants understanding of the term ‘biosecurity,’ barriers to implementing ‘best practice’ biosecurity and the ‘best fit[1]’ for their situation., Scottish Government

Diagnosis and treatment options/strategies for helminth parasitic diseases are not standardized globally, or even across Europe, due to factors such as epidemiology, resources availability, socio-economics, and the lack of adequate information. Good communication of options can help to overcome some of these problems. In this sense, it is proposed to develop a mobile application (Abozeid et al., 2021) that allows the tailoring, and sharing, of knowledge (Abu-El-Noor et al., 2021; Kunkel et al., 2021) related to the various diagnoses and treatments in a format appropriate for all stakeholders (e.g. farmers, veterinarians, universities, researchers, laboratories, industries). The proposal aims to present the theoretical functionalities for the creation of a mobile application (Muashekele et al., 2021), the application should have a sequence of options that must be grounded in theoretical requirements. First of all, there is a necessity to have inputs standardized by the application (e.g. country/region, applicable legislation, animal typology, disease characteristics, symptoms) that should be entered into the application. The aim is to provide a range of tailored options to the end-user. Second, given the user's choices, the application can offer information and guidelines (including veterinarians available, laboratories, diagnosis, treatments, stores, among others). It is highlighted that the main gain may be the collection of information, whenever the user allows it. Finally, considering that most farmers use the language of their country, it is crucial to have the application in different European languages. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion