The use of livestock-disease scoring by a primary animal-health project in Somaliland

Catley, Andy; Mohammed, Afzal

doi:10.1016/0167-5877(96)01038-0

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“…The first stage of the participatory disease appraisal involved greeting, introduction and checking that it was convenient time for pastoralists to undertake appraisal. Local translators, key informants and checklists (semi-structured questionnaires) were used to generate information on the knowledge of herders about cattle diseases and other production constraints as described in Catley and Mohammed (1996) and Catley and Admassu (2003). A total of thirty-five (35) key informant groups with group size varying from six to nine were interviewed during the study period.…”

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“…Ideally, such systems should be action-orientated and result in disease control activities that are designed in partnership with livestock keepers. Given the resource and logistical constraints in pastoralist areas, pastoralists themselves are a valuable source of disease information (Catley and Mohammed 1996;Catley and Mariner 2002). Owing to its trade sensitive nature, FMD has been listed as a top agenda for several decades in this country and this study was therefore, designed to describe and analyze FMD using participatory appraisal in traditionally managed Afar pastoral herds.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Participatory appraisal of foot and mouth disease in the Afar pastoral area, northeast Ethiopia: implications for understanding disease ecology and control strategy

Shiferaw¹,

Moses

Manyahilishal³

2009

Trop Anim Health Prod

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Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is the most economically important disease of livestock that still affects extensive areas of the world. This study described the use of participatory appraisal tools such as pair-wise ranking, matrix scoring and proportional piling to assess the perception of livestock keepers about the clinical signs and epidemiological features of cattle diseases with particular emphasis on FMD. Strong agreement among informant groups (W = 0.710; P = 0.000) in pair wise ranking indicated that the diseases were common problem to all the selected districts. Matrix scoring of disease indicators/signs also showed strong agreement (W = 0.504 to 0.955; P = 0.000) that implied significant current veterinary knowledge by Afar pastoralists. Age specific means of annual incidence rates estimated by proportional piling were significantly (P < 0.05) different but negatively correlated for FMD, CBPP and pasteurellosis. However, correlation was not significant for anthrax, blackleg and other important diseases. Age specific means of annual mortality was significantly (P < 0.05) but negatively correlated for FMD, CBPP, pasteurellosis and other important cattle diseases with correlation coefficients of -0.72, -0.81, -0.8 and -0.55, respectively. However, correlation (r = 0.12) was not significant for anthrax and not correlated at all for blackleg. This study indicated that pastoralists have detailed knowledge about their livestock health problems, and hence the combined use of participatory appraisal and conventional methods is essential for an ultimate disease control strategy.

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Participatory appraisal of foot and mouth disease in the Afar pastoral area, northeast Ethiopia: implications for understanding disease ecology and control strategy

Shiferaw¹,

Moses

Manyahilishal³

2009

Trop Anim Health Prod

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“…A pile of 100 stones representing '100% benefit from cattle' were divided into different benefits in healthy cattle. Then, the benefit lost due to each disease was reduced from each benefit allocated to represent the relative reduction in benefit due to disease (Catley and Mohammed 1996;Barasa et al 2008). Proportional piling was used to gather information on livelihood means, sources of food, new disease cases and benefits derived during the past one year from cattle both with FMD and HIS.…”

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Impacts of foot-and-mouth disease on livelihoods in the Borena Plateau of Ethiopia

Jibat

Admassu²,

Rufael³

et al. 2013

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

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This study was conducted to estimate impacts of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on producers' livelihoods in Borena zone, southern Ethiopia, using participatory appraisal methods and secondary data sources. Livestock-related livelihood options accounted for 31% of the total means of food and income sources followed by crop farming. This study clearly showed that FMD had the greatest impact on the cattle-derived benefits. FMD outbreak frequencies were found to be significantly correlated to the length of extended dry season (r = 0.377). In addition, FMD is ranked as the number one cattle disease after 1985 with significant rank change (t = 12.04) as compared to 1984 and before. Considering the impacts of FMD on peoples' livelihoods, FMD effective control strategies would reduce stress on people's lives, improve food security and keep social harmony.

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“…Mariner and co-workers (Mariner and Paskin, 2000;Mariner and Roeder, 2003) have described methods for conducting timely participatory disease searches to document the current and historic incidence of rinderpest to serve as an intelligence base for decision-making. The Nilotic pastoral communities of southern Sudan (Schwabe and Makuet Koujok, 1981) (Catley et al, 2001) and the pastoral communities of Somali ecosystem (Catley and Mohammed, 1996;Catley et al, 2002) in the Horn of Africa are livestock specialists and excellent observers of disease incidence. Appropriate combinations of participatory disease intelligence and quantitative data form the most complete information base for strategic decision making in pastoral systems.…”

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A model of lineage-1 and lineage-2 rinderpest virus transmission in pastoral areas of East Africa

Mariner¹,

McDermott

Heesterbeek

et al. 2005

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

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The development of a stochastic, state-transition model of rinderpest transmission dynamics is described using parameter estimates obtained from both laboratory and participatory research. Using serological data, the basic reproduction numbers for lineage-1 rinderpest virus in southern Sudan and for lineage-2 rinderpest virus in Somali livestock were estimated as 4.4 and between 1.2 and 1.9, respectively. The model predictions for the inter-epidemic period in Sudan and Somalia (1.2 and 4.2 years, respectively) were in agreement with analysis of livestock-owner reports (1-2 years and 5 years, respectively). #

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The use of livestock-disease scoring by a primary animal-health project in Somaliland

Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

Participatory appraisal of foot and mouth disease in the Afar pastoral area, northeast Ethiopia: implications for understanding disease ecology and control strategy

Participatory appraisal of foot and mouth disease in the Afar pastoral area, northeast Ethiopia: implications for understanding disease ecology and control strategy

Impacts of foot-and-mouth disease on livelihoods in the Borena Plateau of Ethiopia

A model of lineage-1 and lineage-2 rinderpest virus transmission in pastoral areas of East Africa

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