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

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Agroforestry Centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationVétérinaires Sans Frontièresen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInstitute of Virology and Immunology, Switzerlanden_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Bernen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Edinburghen_US
cg.contributor.crpLivestocken_US
cg.contributor.donorBiovision Foundationen_US
cg.contributor.donorSwiss Agency for Development and Cooperationen_US
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ETen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierTheo Knight-Jones: 0000-0003-4342-6055en_US
cg.creator.identifierRebecca Doyle: 0000-0001-6229-4700en_US
cg.creator.identifierBarbara Wieland: 0000-0003-4020-9186en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.1006505en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn2297-1769en_US
cg.journalFrontiers in Veterinary Scienceen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL WELFAREen_US
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food securityen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren_US
cg.volume9en_US
dc.contributor.authorAlemayehu, Gezahegnen_US
dc.contributor.authorBerhe, Tsegaen_US
dc.contributor.authorGelan, Eyoben_US
dc.contributor.authorMokria, M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorJaldessa, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMolu, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWieland, Barbaraen_US
dc.contributor.authorKnight-Jones, Theodore J.D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDoyle, Rebeccaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-08T10:36:08Zen_US
dc.date.available2022-11-08T10:36:08Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/125370en_US
dc.titleAnimal welfare knowledge, attitudes, and practices among livestock holders in Ethiopiaen_US
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_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2022-11-07en_US
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_US
dcterms.extent1006505en_US
dcterms.issued2022-11-07en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Mediaen_US
dcterms.subjectanimal welfareen_US
dcterms.subjectlivestocken_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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