Exploring why animal health practices are (not) adopted among smallholders in low and middle-income countries: a realist framework and scoping review protocol

Abstract

Improving livestock health is considered critical to address poverty, malnutrition and food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Modifications of livestock management practices is also increasingly recognized as an important strategy to mitigate global threats such as climate change and novel disease emergence. Smallholders are, however, under various constraints which prohibit them from altering health practices for livestock and little is known about how the adoption of these practices may be promoted. The proposed scoping review aims to systematically map evidence around “what practices are (not) adopted by smallholders under what circumstances, how and why?.”

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jul 29, 2022
Source ID
10.3389/fvets.2022.915487

Entities

People

  • Anna Durrance-bagale
  • Arata Hidano
  • Hannah Holt
  • James W. Rudge
  • Mehroosh Tak

Organizations

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Economics
  • Strategic Security Studies