A household survey was conducted in six villages of Busia District, Kenya, to assess people's willingness to contribute labor and money to control the tsetse flies that transmit trypanosomiasis. A Heckman's two-step model was estimated to identify factors affecting the probability that a responde...
Echessah, P.N.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Kamara, D.W.
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Curry, J.J.
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[Willingness to contribute labor and money to tsetse control: application of contingent valuation in Busia District, Kenya]
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Willingness to contribute labor and money to tsetse control: application of contingent valuation in Busia District, Kenya
In this case study of the Yale agro-pastoral zone in southern Burkina Faso, the sustainability of tsetse control as a local public good was shown to depend upon farmers' contributions to establish and maintain the traps and targets that attract and kill tsetse flies. Contingent valuation (CV) tec...
Kamuanga, M.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Sigue, H.
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Bauer, B.
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[Evaluating contingent and actual contributions to a local public good: Tsetse control in the Yale agro-pastoral zone, Burkina Faso]
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Evaluating contingent and actual contributions to a local public good: Tsetse control in the Yale agro-pastoral zone, Burkina Faso
This study is conducted with a general objective of evaluating contingent valuation as a method for assessing the willingness of people at a site in the Ghibe Valley of Ethiopia to contribute labour, time and money to tsetse control. The more specific objectives of the case study were to evalua...
Swallow, B.M.
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[Using contingent valuation to assess the prospects for local participation in public good provision: The case of trypanosomiasis control in Ethiopia]
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Using contingent valuation to assess the prospects for local participation in public good provision: The case of trypanosomiasis control in Ethiopia