Household production and consumption impacts of foot and mouth disease at the Uganda-Tanzania border

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Foot-and–mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious viral disease that is endemic in East Africa. FMD virus infection incurs significant control costs and reduces animal productivity through weight loss, lowered milk yield, and potentially death but how household’s respond to these losses may differentially affect household income and food consumption.

Methodology

To address this, we use unique data from a FMD outbreak to assess how household production and consumption activities change from before to during the outbreak. Data came from a 2018 survey of 254 households in selected Tanzanian wards and sub-counties in Uganda. The data includes household recall of before and during an outbreak in the past year on livestock and livestock product sales, milk and be

SUBMITTER: Kerfua S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10277485 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature