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Mobile veterinary clinics in the drylands of Kenya: Securing pastoralists’ livelihoods by bringing services close

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Title Mobile veterinary clinics in the drylands of Kenya: Securing pastoralists’ livelihoods by bringing services close
 
Creator Omondi, Immaculate A.
Baltenweck, Isabelle
Kinuthia, Emmanuel
Kirui, Leonard
Njoroge-Wamwere, George
Bett, Bernard K.
Munene, A.
Onle, S.
Dida, D.
Kiara, Henry K.
 
Subject policies
development
environment
livelihoods
veterinary services
pastoralists
 
Description Livestock productivity for pastoralist households, who depend upon their livestock as a source of livelihood, is constrained by infectious diseases among other factors. Pastoralists in the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) of the Horn of Africa lack access to livestock health inputs and services. To assess the profitability of private animal health service delivery, mobile veterinary clinics were piloted in three ASAL counties in Kenya. Our findings reveal the positive impact of the clinics on animal health provision as well as policy and regulatory factors that affect its viability.
 
Date 2021-07-04
2021-01-26T16:25:10Z
2021-01-26T16:25:10Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Omondi, I., Baltenweck, I., Kinuthia, E., Kirui, L., Njoroge-Wamwere, G., Bett, B., Munene, A., Onle, S., Dida, D. and Kiara, H. 2021. Mobile veterinary clinics in the drylands of Kenya: Securing pastoralists’ livelihoods by bringing services close. Development in Practice 31(5): 561–579.
1364-9213
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110995
https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2020.1863917
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 561-579
 
Publisher Informa UK Limited
 
Source Development in Practice