Quantifying farmers’ preferences for antimicrobial use for livestock diseases in northern Tanzania

Abstract Understanding the choice behaviours of farmers around treatment their livestock is critical to counteracting risks antimicrobial resistance (AMR) emergence. Using varying disease scenarios, we measure differences in species’ preferences and effects context variables (such as grazing patterns, herd size, travel time agrovet shops, previous experience, vaccination education level, income) on farmers’ choices for infections across three production systems—agro-pastoral, pastoral, rural smallholder—in northern Tanzania, where reliance support health productivity high. Applying a context-dependent stated experiment, surveyed 1224 respondents. Mixed logit model results show that have higher professional veterinary services when treating cattle, sheep, goats, while they prefer self-treat poultry. Antibiotics sourced from shops are medicine choice, independent condition treat, whether viral, bacterial, or parasitic. Nearness informal education, borrowing home storage medicines, commercial poultry rearing increase chances self-treatment. Based our findings, propose interventions such awareness campaigns aimed at addressing current practices pose AMR risks, well good husbandry practices, capacity building, provision diagnostic tools.