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African animal trypanosomosis is a parasitic disease that afflicts livestock across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The disease, primarily transmitted by the tsetse fly (Glossina spp.), causes morbidity and mortality in several species of livestock. It is particularly important in southern Burkina Fa...


Kamuanga, M.Antoine, C.Brasselle, A.S.Swallow, B.M.D'Ieteren, G.D.M.Bauer, B.[Impacts of tsetse control on migration, livestock production, cropping practices and farmer-herder conflicts in the Mouhoun valley of southern Burkina Faso]Impacts of tsetse control on migration, livestock production, cropping practices and farmer-herder conflicts in the Mouhoun valley of southern Burkina Faso

Livestock production is an enterprise undertaken by most farm households in The Gambia. Livestock production is affected, however, by the different levels of trypanosomosis risk that pertain across the country. A study of the effects of trypanosomosis on livestock and crop production was initiate...


Mugalla, C.Swallow, B.M.Kamuanga, M.[The effects of trypanosomosis risk on farmers' livestock portfolios: Evidence from The Gambia]The effects of trypanosomosis risk on farmers' livestock portfolios: Evidence from The Gambia

A tsetse control campaign using an insecticidal cypermethrin "pour-on" applied monthly to village Zebu cattle in Ghibe in southwest Ethiopia has been in operation for over six years. For four of these years farmers have paid a cost-recovery price for each animal given treatment. Relative densitie...


Mulatu, W.Swallow, B.M.Rowlands, G.J.Leak, S.G.A.D'Ieteren, G.D.M.Nagda, S.M.[Economic benefits to farmers of six years of application of an insecticidal 'pour-on' to control tsetse in Ghibe, southwest Ethiopia]Economic benefits to farmers of six years of application of an insecticidal 'pour-on' to control tsetse in Ghibe, southwest Ethiopia

Since April 1990 a tsetse control experiment with the synthetic pyrethroid Ectopour has been conducted in the Gullele-Tolley area of the Ghibe Valley, southwest Ethiopia. Monthly applications of the pour-on were given to about 2,000 cattle between April 1991 and July 1992 and about 3,000 cattle b...


Swallow, B.M.Mulatu, W.Leak, S.G.A.[Evaluation of pour-on by Ethiopian farmers]Evaluation of pour-on by Ethiopian farmers

Animal trypanosomosis is particularly important in Ethipia where 7-10 million cattle are at risk. A geo-referenced census of over 5000 households was conducted between March and July 1996 to better understand factors affecting demand of the a cypermethrin pour-ons used since January 1991 to contr...


Wangila, J.Swallow, B.M.Tesfamichael, N.Okello, O.Kruska, R.L.[Factors affecting farmer demand and pour-on treatments in Ethiopia]Factors affecting farmer demand and pour-on treatments in Ethiopia

Reports on completed and planned research to examine farmers' perceptions of different breeds, the discretion they exercise over breed composition, and the impacts of breed perceptions on breeding practices. ILCA has recently undertaken three household surveys that shed light on farmers' breed pr...


Swallow, B.M.Jabbar, M.A.[Cattle breed preferences and breeding practices in southern Nigeria]Cattle breed preferences and breeding practices in southern Nigeria

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