Newcastle disease vaccine adoption by smallholder households in Tanzania: Identifying determinants and barriers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food security is critical to achieving sustainable growth, poverty reduction, and political and economic stability. Livestock have the potential to improve the food security of smallholder households in developing countries, but livestock productivity is constrained by disease. The extent to which households adopt innovations such as vaccines impacts disease control; however, the behavioral and economic drivers underlying household decisions to adopt or forgo vaccination are not well understood. We address this gap with a study of adoption of Newcastle disease (ND) vaccines by chicken-owning households in Tanzania.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey was administered to 535 households owning indigenous chickens in Arusha, Singida, and Mbeya regions in Tanzania. We me

SUBMITTER: Campbell ZA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6200240 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature