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A Stakeholder Analysis Framework for Measuring the Impacts of Swine Waste Management in North Carolina

Studies show that large-scale confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) swine farms impact water and air quality, leading to negative human health impacts. Prior research by NCGrowth indicates that these farms also have a negative impact on surrounding property values and economic development prospects.
This report summarizes known impacts by stakeholder group in North Carolina resulting from current and evolving swine waste management systems on CAFOs. The stakeholders included in this report are: growers, farm workers, individuals living near CAFOs, host communities of CAFOs, downstream communities from CAFOs, the swine industry, and government agencies in North Carolina. This stakeholder analysis provides a framework that can be used in future analysis to quantify benefits and costs to these stakeholders as alternative waste management systems and other policy options are considered.

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