Tagline: Why we do what we do: Farmers’ management of the environment and health
Champions: Silvia Alonso, David Pelster, Alessandra Galie
Team: FSZ, LSE, LGI
This study brings together (or integrates) four key areas of ILRI’s work: it aims to understand the connections between household characteristics and livestock management practices, livestock and human health and greenhouse gas emission. It focuses on understanding what and how household characteristics (e.g. education, household composition, access to inputs, livelihood strategies by gender) affect (i) the management of livestock (e.g. species kept, livestock health management, extensive or intensive)and how this ultimately affects greenhouse gas emissions and (ii) the uptake of practices that affect livestock and human health. This understanding will contribute to identifying those strategies that most successfully can mitigate negative environmental effects of livestock production while maximizing animal and human health benefits. The project will put special emphasis on identifying farmers' drivers of behavior change (“incentives”) which underlie adoption of best practices. The study will utilize the extensive databases available at ILRI and generated by the different research projects (i.e. impactlite, kap on health, kap on management, etc). hypothesis drawn from the quantitative analysis will then be further explored through in depth qualitative studies.
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