Livestock Diseases and Poverty

of effective tsetse control if it is implemented as a coordinated effort. The use of traps and insecticide-treated cattle requires a fully coordinated program over a wide area to be at all effective and to provide benefits to farmers over a broad area. Sequential aerial spraying with non-residual insecticides is another way to achieve area-wide control, as is the release of sterile insects to eliminate residual fly populations once the tsetse population of an area has been suppressed using an insecticidal method.