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Recent advances in livestock keeper-based tsetse control: the way forward

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Publication date
22/10/2003
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Event Reports
Focus Region:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Focus Topic:
Health & Diseases
Type of Risk:
Biological & environmental
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk coping
Commodity:
Livestock
Source
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/RLAHadvances_tsetse_control.pdf
Author
Dfid-Ahp
Organization
DfID

The workshop brought together researchers from various African countries who are working on one of three new approaches to livestock keeper-based tsetse control. The workshop was primarily concerned with three recent advances that appear highly
relevant to livestock keeper-based tsetse control: 1) refinement of application of synthetic pyrethroids (SP) to cattle in tsetse predilection sites, 2) use of SP-impregnated netting to protect zero-grazed dairy cattle and 3) development of tsetse repellents that exploit novel ‘push-pull’ strategies. The report contains a review of the new technologies and then examines the way forward, by evaluating whether the new technologies are appropriate for livestock keeper-based tsetse control.