Intervening against bovine trypanosomosis in eastern Africa: mapping the costs and benefits

This book brings together almost a decade’s innovative work analysing and illustrating the economics of tsetse and trypanosomosis (T&T) in a spatial context. It builds on a pioneering study West Africa, extending the approach to the tsetse-infested regions of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. Cattle production systems are categorised as pastoral, agro-pastoral or mixed farming and further subdivided according to their use of draught power and high yielding dairy animals. Twelve cattle production systems are mapped and their production in the absence and presence of trypanosomiasis calculated, providing the basic data for mapping the losses, and hence potential benefits from interventions against T&T. The costs of trypanocides, targets, insecticide-treated cattle, aerial spraying and the sterile insect technique are calculated, applied as appropriate in the context of sustained control activities or the creation of permanent tsetse-free zones. Mapping these costs made it possible to go on to map the benefit-cost ratios. The key findings have been published in three scientific papers. This book provides a wealth of additional background material, maps, tables and references which are particularly valuable to those with an interest in trypanosomiasis, its impact on livestock and cattle production systems and productivity in the sub-region.