Little is known about the factors affecting pastoralists' livestock vaccination decisions. In this thesis, we use a novel survey-based dataset on pastoralists living in the Ruaha landscape in Tanzania, and employ several econometric approaches to identify the factors affecting pastoralists' decision-making process about livestock vaccination when disease occurrence and severity, vaccination and...

African pastoralists are undergoing significant changes in livelihood strategies, from predominantly mobile pastoralism to agro-pastoralism which both livestock raising and cultivation of crops practiced, combined with wage labor petty trade. These often result fixed settlements or a process known as sedentarization. Previous research indicates that sedentarization increased climate variability...

This study aimed at evaluating livelihood impacts in pursuit to provide answer an outstanding question on whether tourism destination development over time has influenced residents’ access adequate assets underlying household-wealth and well-being. The involved agro-pastoralists residing three gateway communities: Loliondo, Lake Natron Burunge, located Northern Tanzania. A cost-effective impact...

Alternative livelihood project (ALP) is a widely used term for interventions that aim to reduce the prevalence of activities deemed to be environmentally damaging by substituting them with lower impact livelihood activities that provide at least equivalent benefits. ALPs are widely implemented in conservation, but in 2012, an International Union for Conservation of Nature resolution called for ...

which dominates most of the economies in the region, relies heavily on the livestock subsector for its contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP), estimated at 32 percent in the last decades for the region as a whole (Winrock International 1992). The region's growing population relies heavily on livestock products for their daily dietary requirement. The provision of draught power and man...

This study was conducted at Eldebeibat area, in South Kordofan State, Sudan. The aim of this study was to assess the role of competition on rangelands’ utilization on occurrence of conflicts between land’s users in the semi-arid areas of Eldebeibat, Sudan. Two target questionnaires were designed to collect data from two groups of land users namely nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers that...

x Guidelines for surveillance combined with performance indicators—the World Health Organization's pioneering work was taken as a model. x Molecular characterisation of viruses had a seminal effect on both epidemiological understanding and the conduct of eradication programmes. Designation of a world reference laboratory, hosted by the UK Institute for Animal Health, was invaluable. Conclusions...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in the Horn of Africa with Ethiopia being the most affected where TB cases increase at the rate of 2.6% each year. One of the main contributing factors for this rise is increasing transmission due to large number of untreated patients, serving as reservoirs of the infection within the communities. Reduction of the time between onset ...

Flood-based Agricultural Systems (FAS), which rely on temporary floods, provide livelihoods for nearly 50 million smallholder farmers across water-stressed African basins. This paper analyses the impact of externally driven agricultural production and productivity improvement interventions in FAS, taking Ethiopian Fogera floodplain as a case study. Ostroms’ Governing Commons Principles were use...