Willingness to pay for a Rift Valley fever (RVF) vaccine among Kenyan cattle producers

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversité de Carthageen
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierBernard Bett: 0000-0001-9376-2941en
cg.creator.identifierFrancis Wanyoike: 0000-0002-1907-1410en
cg.creator.identifierNadhem Mtimet: 0000-0003-3125-2828en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2019.104763en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0167-5877en
cg.journalPreventive Veterinary Medicineen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL DISEASESen
cg.subject.ilriCATTLEen
cg.subject.ilriDISEASE CONTROLen
cg.subject.ilriRVFen
cg.subject.ilriVACCINESen
cg.subject.ilriZOONOTIC DISEASESen
cg.volume171en
dc.contributor.authorWanyoike, Francis N.en
dc.contributor.authorMtimet, Nadhemen
dc.contributor.authorBett, Bernard K.en
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-26T10:24:21Zen
dc.date.available2019-09-26T10:24:21Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/103760
dc.titleWillingness to pay for a Rift Valley fever (RVF) vaccine among Kenyan cattle producersen
dcterms.abstractA double bounded contingent valuation (CV) model was used to assess the Willingness to Pay (WTP) for vaccination of cattle against RVF in a sample of 276 livestock producers in Murang’a, Laikipia and Kwale Counties. While the level of awareness about the disease was rather low, nearly all respondents expressed willingness to have their animals vaccinated against the disease. Average WTP was highest in Murang’a (mean = US$1.44) where farmers practice dairy farming using exotic breeds of cattle compared to Laikipia (mean = US$1.24), where both exotic dairy and local breeds of cattle together with their crosses are kept, and Kwale (mean = US$1.01) where local breeds are predominantly kept. These average levels of WTP were 17%–67% higher than the estimated cost incurred by government (US$0.86 per head of cattle) in the most recent vaccination campaign conducted during RVF outbreak. Surprisingly, WTP tended to be lower among producers with many heads of cattle probably because the large herds would translate to bigger total costs. The study recommended support for sensitization campaigns about RVF and its control measures. While the high average levels of WTP implies potential for commercialization of vaccination against RVF, there may be need for price differentiation by region to ensure that sufficiently high numbers of producers vaccinate their animals to prevent outbreaks.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWanyoike, F., Mtimet, N. and Bett, B. 2019. Willingness to pay for a Rift Valley fever (RVF) vaccine among Kenyan cattle producers. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 171: 104763.en
dcterms.issued2019-11en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectzoonosesen
dcterms.subjectanimal diseasesen
dcterms.subjectdisease controlen
dcterms.subjectvaccinesen
dcterms.subjectcattleen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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