Eco-social analysis of an East African agro-pastoral system: Management of tsetse and bovine trypanosomiasis

Ecological Economics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-135

  Baumgärtner, Johann ^a   Gilioli, Gianni ^b   Tikubet, Getachew ^c   Gutierrez, Andrew Paul ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Center for the Analysis of Sustainable Agricultural Systems CASAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioeconomic model; Community participation; Ecological, economic and social sustainability; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; PASTORALISM; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; GLOSSINA (GENUS); TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 38949115950     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Anonymous. Our Common Future. United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) (1987), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
2. Anonymous. Tropical Livestock Units (2006). http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/dec/toolbox/Mixed1/TLU.htm [www.virtualcentre.org/en/dec/toolbox/Mixed1/TLU.htm] [retrieved on June 18, 2007].
3. Barrett, J.C., 1989. Tsetse control, land use and livestock in the development of the Zambezi valley, Zimbabwe, some policy considerations. International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA), Addis Ababa, and ALPAN - African Livestock Policy Network.
4. Baumgärtner J., Getachew T., Melaku G., Sciarretta A., Shifa B., and Trematerra P. Cases for adaptive ecological systems management. Redia LXXXVI (2003) 165-172
5. Becker C.D., and Ostrom E. Human ecology and resource sustainability: the importance of institutional diversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 26 (1995) 113-133
6. Brightwell R., Dransfield R.D., and Kyorku C. Development of a low-cost tsetse trap and odour baits for Glossina pallidipes and Glossina longipennis in Kenya. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 5 (1991) 153-164
7. Brightwell B., Dransfield B., Maudlin I., Stevenson P., and Shaw A. Reality vs. rhetoric - a survey and evaluation of tsetse control in East Africa. Agriculture and Human Values 18 (2001) 219-233
8. Christensen N.L., Bartuska A.M., Brown J.H., Carpenter S., D'Antonio C., Francis R., Franklin J.F., MacMahon J.A., Noss R.F., Parsons D.J., Petersen C.H., Turner M.G., and Woodmansee R.G. The report of the Ecological Society of America committee on the scientific basis for ecosystem management. Ecological Applications 6 (1996) 665-691
9. C.S.R.E.E.S. Precision Farming. Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, United States of Agriculture, Washington, DC (2006). http://www.csrees.usda.gov/ProgView.cfm?prnum=5191 [www.csrees.usda.gov/ProgView.cfm?prnum=5191] [retrieved on June 20, 2006].
10. Cuperus G.W., Berberet R.C., and Noyes R.T. The essential role of IPM in promoting sustainability of agricultural production systems for future generations. In: Koul O., Dhaliwlal G.S., and Cuperus G. (Eds). Integrated Pest Management: Potential, Constraints and Challenges (2004), CAB International, Oxford 265-280
11. Easterly W. The White Man's Burden (2006), Penguin Press, New York
12. FAO. Use of Attractive Devices for Tsetse Survey and Control (2006). http://www.fao.org/AG/AGAINFO/programmes/en/paat/documents/manuals/vol4. htm [www.fao.org/AG/AGAINFO/programmes/en/paat/documents/manuals/vol4.htm] [retrieved on June 18, 2007].
13. Fleming W.H., and Rishel R.W. Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal Control (1975), Springer, New York
14. Getachew T., Shifa B., and Amare B. Community-based tsetse control: a model project within a sustainable agriculture framework. In: Aseffa A., Getachew T., and Baumgärtner J. (Eds). Resource Management for Poverty Reduction Approaches & Technologies (2003), Ethiopian Social Rehabilitation and Development Fund, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 153-164
15. Getz W., and Gutierrez A.P. A perspective on systems analysis in crop production and insect pest management. Annual Review of Entomolology 27 (1982) 447-466
16. Gilioli, G., Baumgärtner, J., in press. Adaptive ecosystem sustainability enhancement in Sub-Saharan Africa. EcoHealth.
17. Goodland R. The concept of environmental sustainability. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 26 (1995) 1-24
18. Gryseels G., Abiye A., Anderson F.M., and Getachew A. The use of single oxen for crop cultivation in Ethiopia. ILCA Bulletin 18 (1984) 20-25
19. In: Gunderson L.H., Holling C.S., and Light S.S. (Eds). Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions (1995), Columbia University Press, New York
20. Gutierrez A.P. Applied Population Ecology: a Supply-Demand Approach (1996), Wiley, New York
21. Gutierrez A.P., and Baumgärtner J.U. Multitrophic level models of predator-prey energetics. 1. Age-specific energetic models - pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum (Homoptera: Aphididae) as an example. Canadian Entomologist 116 (1984) 924-932
22. Gutierrez A.P., and Curry G.L. Conceptual framework for studying crop-pest systems. In: Frisbie R.E., El-Zik K.M., and Wilson L.T. (Eds). Integrated Pest Management Systems and Cotton Production (1989), Wiley-Interscience, New York
23. Gutierrez A.P., and Regev U. The bioeconomics of tritrophic systems: applications to invasive species. Ecological Economics 52 (2005) 382-396
24. Gutierrez A.P., Mills N.J., Schreiber S.J., and Ellis C.K. A physiologically based tritrophic perspective on bottom-up-top-down regulation of populations. Ecology 75 (1994) 2227-2242
25. Hancock G. The Lords of Poverty (1989), Macmillian, New York
26. Hawando T. Desertification in Ethiopian highlands. RALA Report vol. 200 (2006). http://www.rala.is/rade/ralareport/Hawando.pdf [www.rala.is/rade/ralareport/Hawando.pdf] [retrieved on June 16, 2006].
27. Herren, H.R., Baumgärtner, J., Gilioli, G., in press. From integrated pest management to adaptive ecosystem management. In: Scherr, S., McNeely, J. (Eds.), Farming with Nature: the Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture. Washington, D.C., Island Press.
28. Holling C.S. Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria (1978), Wiley, Chichester
29. Huffaker C.B., and Croft B.A. Integrated pest management in the US: progress and promise. Environmental Health Perspectives 14 (1976) 167-183
30. Jørgensen S.E. Integration of Ecosystem Theories: a Pattern (2002), Kluwer, Dordrecht, NL
31. Ketema H., and Tsehay R. Dairy production system in Ethiopia. In: Kurwijila L.R., Hendrickson J., Aboud A.O.O., and Kifaro G.C. (Eds). Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Morogoro Hotel, Morogoro, Tanzania, 20-24 March (1995), FAO, Rome, Italy
32. Kuzoe F.A.S., and Schofield C.J. Strategic review of traps and targets for tsetse and African Trypanosomiasis control. TDR/IDE/TRY/05.1. UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland (2004)
33. Parrott L. Complexity and the limits of ecological engineering. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAEA) 45 (2002) 1697-1702
34. Regev U., Gutierrez A.P., Schreiber S.J., and Zilberman D. Biological and economic foundations of renewable resource exploitation. Ecological Economics 26 (1998) 227-242
35. Reinhardt E. Working Together: UN Agencies Battle Tsetse... and Rural Poverty. online edition (2006), United Nations Chronicle. http://www.un.org/chronicle [www.un.org/chronicle] [retrieved on June 10, 2006].
36. Rogers D.J., and Randolph S.E. Tsetse flies in Africa: bane or boon. Conservation Biology 1 (1988) 57-65
37. Rowlands G.J., Mulatu W., Leak S.G., Nagda S.M., and d'Ieteren G.D. Estimating the effects of tsetse control on livestock productivity - a case study in southwest Ethiopia. Tropical Animal Health and Production 31 (1999) 279-294
38. Rowlands G.J., Leak S.G., Mulatu W., Nagda S.M., and d'Ieteren G.D. Use of deltamethrin 'pour-on' insecticide for the control of cattle trypanosomosis in the presence of high tsetse invasion. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 15 (2000) 87-96
39. Sciarretta A., Melaku G., Getachew T., Lulseged B., Shifa B., and Baumgärtner J. Development of an adaptive population management scheme for the Luke community, Ethiopia. Journal of Medical Entomology 42 (2005) 1006-1019
40. UNSTATS. United Nations Statistics Division (2006). http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm] [retrieved on June 18, 2007]
41. Waltner-Toews D. Ecosystem Sustainability and Health: a Practical Approach (2004), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
42. Waltner-Toews D., Kay J.K., Neudoerffer C., and Gitau T. Perspective changes everything: managing ecosystem from inside out. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1 (2003) 23-30