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Book (series)Intervening against bovine trypanosomosis in eastern Africa: mapping the costs and benefits 2017
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No results found.This book brings together almost a decade’s innovative work analysing and illustrating the economics of tsetse and trypanosomosis (T&T) in a spatial context. It builds on a pioneering study West Africa, extending the approach to the tsetse-infested regions of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. Cattle production systems are categorised as pastoral, agro-pastoral or mixed farming and further subdivided according to their use of draught power and high yielding dairy animal s. Twelve cattle production systems are mapped and their production in the absence and presence of trypanosomiasis calculated, providing the basic data for mapping the losses, and hence potential benefits from interventions against T&T. The costs of trypanocides, targets, insecticide-treated cattle, aerial spraying and the sterile insect technique are calculated, applied as appropriate in the context of sustained control activities or the creation of permanent tsetse-free zones. Mapping these costs made it possible to go on to map the benefit-cost ratios. The key findings have been published in three scientific papers. This book provides a wealth of additional background material, maps, tables and references which are particularly valuable to those with an interest in trypanosomiasis, its impact on livestock and cattle production systems and productivity in the sub-region. -
ArticleMapping the benefit-cost ratios of interventions against bovine trypanosomosis in Eastern Africa 2015
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No results found.This study builds upon earlier work mapping the potential benefits from bovine trypanosomosis control and analysing the costs of different approaches. Updated costs were derived for five intervention techniques: trypanocides, targets, insecticide-treated cattle, aerial spraying and the release of sterile males. Two strategies were considered: continuous control and elimination. For mapping the costs, cattle densities, environmental constraints, and the presence of savannah or riverine tsetse spe cies were taken into account. These were combined with maps of potential benefits to produce maps of benefit-cost ratios. Author’s Accepted Manuscript, published with permission. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetControlling tsetse and trypanosomosis to protect African livestock keepers, public health and farmers’ livelihoods 2019
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No results found.Tsetse-transmitted Trypanosomoses are a family of infectious diseases unique to Africa that are caused by various species of blood parasites. They affect both people (Human African Trypanosomosis – HAT, or sleeping sickness) and animals (African Animal Trypanosomosis – AAT, or nagana), and they occur in 37 sub-Saharan countries over an area of more than 10 million km² – which corresponds approximately to one-third of Africa’s total land area. The infection threatens over 50 million people and at least 50 million cattle. The disease is often neglected by both endemic countries and donors as it mostly affects poor and vulnerable smallholders in rural areas. In the framework of the Programme Against African Trypanosomosis (PAAT), FAO deals with the constraints that Trypanosomoses pose on agricultural production, rural development and food security.
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