Livestock health and socio-economic impacts of a veterinary intervention in Maasailand: Infection-and-treatment vaccine against East Coast fever

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 89, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 248-271

  Homewood, Katherine ^a   Trench, Pippa ^a,c   Randall, Sara ^a   Lynen, Godelieve ^b   Bishop, Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b National Integrated Tick and Tick Borne Disease Control Project   (Tanzania)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

East Coast fever; Livelihoods; Livestock development; Livestock vaccination; Maasai pastoralism; Socio economic differentiation

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; LIVESTOCK FARMING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; VACCINATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; MASAI MARA; RIFT VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33645216815     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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