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

Pastoralism

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jibat, Tariku ^a   Admassu, Berhanu ^b   Rufael, Tesfaye ^c   Baumann, Maximilian PO ^d   Pötzsch, Carsten J ^e  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Animal Health Diagnostics and Investigation Center   (Ethiopia)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e EpiVetGermany   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Foot and mouth disease; Participatory epidemiology; Pastoralists; Socio economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975230905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-3-5     Document Type: Article

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