agroterrorism

The use of biological (e.g., anthrax, foot and mouth disease) or chemical agents against crops and livestock, in an effort to disrupt a population’s economy and food supply.

Agroterrorism

The largely hypothetical use of biological or chemical agents (e.g., anthrax, foot and mouth disease) against crops and livestock to disrupt a population’s economy and food supply.

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(67) A legitimate threat to domestic food security is embodied by an al Qaeda training manual that is devoted to agroterrorism --that is, the destruction of crops, livestock, and food processing operations.

The U.S. Government's Approach to Food Security: Focus on Campaign Activities

Agroterrorism is a subset of the more general issues of terrorism and bioterrorism.

Flyover: The Potential Impact of Agroterrorism and Bioterrorism within Agricultural Aerial Application Operations

In order to remain one of the safest food supply systems in the world today, we must employ at the local, state, and federal levels skilled professionals who are equipped to respond to and recover from the crisis of an agroterrorism event.

Agroterrorism: the risks to the United States food supply and national security

"Conventional discourse on the issue of agroterrorism typically focuses on the potential for human fatalities, but the consequential economic impact to the agricultural industry would also be quite significant," said Matthew Power, executive vice president of Lexington Insurance Co.

Agroterrorism: the food supply chain apocalypse: it's the low-tech threat that could have devastating food supply chain consequences

Rogers (2006), "The Threat of Agroterrorism to Australia: Preliminary Assessment," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 29(2): 147-163.

Theorizing terrorism: terrorism as moral action: a scoping study

against agriculture and food, see CRS Report RL32521, Agroterrorism:

The National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility: issues for Congress

In Chapter 5, Kimball shifts, somewhat unexpectedly, to the issue of intentional harm, and discusses bioterrorism (the use of infectious microorganisms to attack humans) and agroterrorism (spoiling crops or livestock, or contaminating food products).

Ann Marie Kimball, Risky Trade: Infectious Disease in the Era of Global Trade

(18.) See JIM MONKE, CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERV., AGROTERRORISM: THREATS AND PREPAREDNESS 8 (2004), available at http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/ RL32521.pdf (stating that "agriculture and food production generally have received relatively less attention, or sometimes were overlooked, in counter-terrorism and homeland security" but also noting that "agriculture now is garnering more attention in the expanding field of terrorism studies and policies").

Response is local, relief is not: the pervasive impact of agro terrorism

THE SOURCE: "Responding to Systemic Crisis: The Case of Agroterrorism" by Lesley Seebeck, in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Sept.

Terror in the fields

The facility established under the proposed bill would research, test, and evaluate human and zoonotic diseases to protect against the threat of agroterrorism and naturally occurring incidents.

Agriculture security

Featured session topics include: Importance of Networking Interpreting Research Maximizing Your Trade Show ROI Successful AgriTourism Agroterrorism Shifting Demographics in Agriculture New Media Ethanol Farm Bill Update

NAMA Boot Camp: 2007 NAMA Boot Camp: August 21-23 * Kansas City

Other FDA efforts include the Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism Initiative, which helps identify sector-specific vulnerabilities, determine research gaps and needs, and increase coordination between the federal government and industry stakeholders, and the ALERT Initiative, launched last year and created to raise industry awareness of food defense and preparedness issues.