Local and wide-scale livestock movement networks inform disease control strategies in East Africa.

ABSTRACT: Livestock mobility exacerbates infectious disease risks across sub-Saharan Africa, but enables critical access to grazing and water resources, and trade. Identifying locations of high livestock traffic offers opportunities for targeted control. We focus on Tanzanian agropastoral and pastoral communities that account respectively for over 75% and 15% of livestock husbandry in eastern Africa. We construct networks of livestock connectivity based on participatory mapping data on herd movements reported by village livestock keepers as well as data from trading points to understand how seasonal availability of resources, land-use and trade influence the movements of livestock. In communities that practise agropastoralism, inter- and intra-village connectivity through communal livestock resource

SUBMITTER: Ekwem D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10267211 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature