Technical and Scientific Series
The progressive control pathway for African animal trypanosomosis – Operational guidelines
2025
African animal trypanosomosis (AAT) is a wasting and often fatal disease that continues to place a huge burden on livestock keepers. AAT also hinders mixed crop–livestock agriculture and affects public health by constituting a source of infection to humans.
The continental atlas of the distribution of tsetse flies in Africa
2024
Tsetse flies (Genus: Glossina) occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where they transmit trypanosomosis, a group of parasitic diseases that affect both animals and humans. Tsetse and trypanosomosis are a constant drain on the resources of poor African livestock keepers and they also impose a public health burden.
Intervening against bovine trypanosomosis in eastern Africa: mapping the costs and benefits
2017
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.
Linking sustainable human and animal African trypanosomosis control with rural development strategies
2010
Tsetse and trypanosomosis (T&T) affect rural communities over a huge area of Africa, impacting on the health of humans and livestock and acting as a brake on rural development. As more and more interventions against T&T are undertaken – large and small scale, farmer and project based – it is vital that they be integrated with other initiatives in the three principal sectors affected by T&T: human health, animal health and overall rural development.
Geospatial datasets and analyses for an environmental approach to African trypanosomiasis
2009
Geospatial datasets and analysis techniques based on geographic information systems (GIS) have become indispensable tools in the planning, implementation and evaluation of a wide range of development programmes, including actions addressing sustainable agriculture and rural development.
Standardizing land cover mapping for tsetse and trypanosomiasis decision making
2008
The habitat of tsetse fly (Glossina spp.) depends upon climatic conditions, host availability and land cover characteristics. In this paper, the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS), developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is proposed as a tool to harmonize land cover mapping exercises carried out in the context of tsetse and trypanosomiasis (T&T) research and control.
Trypanotolerant livestock in the context of trypanosomiasis intervention strategies
2004
Trypanosomiasis poses a considerable constraint on livestock-agricultural development in tsetse-infested areas of sub-Saharan Africa. For various and complex reasons, many efforts to limit or eradicate trypanosomiasis have failed or have had limited success.
Long-term tsetse and trypanosomiasis management options in West Africa
2004
Tsetse-transmitted animal trypanosomiasis is a complex disease that directly and indirectly has an impact on Africa’s crop and livestock agricultural development. In this paper, state-of-the-art spatial tools are applied to study the variety of agro- ecological settings in West Africa with a view to providing decision support to the management of the tsetse and trypanosomiasis ( T& problem according to the prevailing agro- ecological conditions.
Economic guidelines for strategic planning of tsetse and trypanosomiasis control in West Africa
2003
The presence of tsetse and trypanosomiasis (T&T) in vast areas of sub-Saharan Africa is a major constraint to livestock-agricultural development. However, the impact of the disease varies with and between countries, regions and agro-ecological zones.
Socio-economic and cultural factors in the research and control trypanosomiasis
2003
African animal trypanosomiasis affects the entire economy of livestock-agricultural production in vast zones of tsetse-infested areas. The presence of the diasease influences where people decide to live and the management of their livestock.