Animal welfare knowledge, attitudes, and practices among livestock holders in Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Agroforestry Centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationVétérinaires Sans Frontièresen
cg.contributor.affiliationInstitute of Virology and Immunology, Switzerlanden
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Bernen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Edinburghen
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorBiovision Foundationen
cg.contributor.donorSwiss Agency for Development and Cooperationen
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierTheo Knight-Jones: 0000-0003-4342-6055en
cg.creator.identifierRebecca Doyle: 0000-0001-6229-4700en
cg.creator.identifierBarbara Wieland: 0000-0003-4020-9186en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.1006505en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2297-1769en
cg.journalFrontiers in Veterinary Scienceen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL WELFAREen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.volume9en
dc.contributor.authorAlemayehu, Gezahegnen
dc.contributor.authorBerhe, Tsegaen
dc.contributor.authorGelan, Eyoben
dc.contributor.authorMokria, M.en
dc.contributor.authorJaldessa, J.en
dc.contributor.authorMolu, J.en
dc.contributor.authorWieland, Barbaraen
dc.contributor.authorKnight-Jones, Theodore J.D.en
dc.contributor.authorDoyle, Rebeccaen
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-08T10:36:08Zen
dc.date.available2022-11-08T10:36:08Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/125370
dc.titleAnimal welfare knowledge, attitudes, and practices among livestock holders in Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractImproving animal welfare is a human responsibility and influenced by a person's values and experiences. Thus, it is critical to have an in-depth understanding of the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of animal welfare among animal owners. For livestock in Ethiopia, the greatest proportion of livestock are reared by pastoral and mixed crop-livestock communities. A cross-sectional survey covering a range of species and animal welfare aspects was carried out on a total of 197 household (117 pastoral and 80 crop-livestock owners) and recorded information on 34 animal welfare KAP items. Item response theory models (IRT) were fitted to the data from KAP items to estimate the probability of correctly answering an item. This was used as a function of the respondents' KAP level. Overall, the highest percentage of desirable scores was recorded for the knowledge scale (35.7%) and the lowest was for the practice scale (24.6%). A significant correlation (P < 0.01) was found between knowledge of the farmers and their attitude toward animal welfare and self-reported practices. Generally, households practicing mixed crop-livestock farming system had better animal welfare knowledge, attitude, and practice than pastoralist. Mixed crop-livestock farmers had better knowledge on items related to observing the nutrition condition of the animal, animal-human relationship, the importance of water, and health inspection compared to pastoralists. In contrast, pastoralists had better knowledge of items related to natural behavior expression, animal care, and animal suffering than mixed crop-livestock farmers. Pastoralists had 3.3-times higher odds than mixed crop-livestock farmers to have a positive attitude to train their animals without beating. KAP scores demonstrate the need for targeted training to improve animal well-being (i.e., housing, management, nutrition, disease prevention and treatment, responsible care, humane handling) across livestock holding communities in Ethiopia.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2022-11-07en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAlemayehu, G., Berhe, T., Gelan, E., Mokria, M., Jaldessa, J., Molu, J., Wieland, B., Knight-Jones, T. and Doyle, R.E. 2022. Animal welfare knowledge, attitudes, and practices among livestock holders in Ethiopia. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9: 1006505.en
dcterms.extent1006505en
dcterms.issued2022-11-07en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dcterms.subjectanimal welfareen
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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