Using choice experiments: Facilitating priority setting in provision of animal health services
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Using choice experiments: Facilita4ng priority se6ng in provision of animal health services Immaculate Omondi 1, 3 , Kers5n Zander 2 , Siegfried Bauer 3 and Isabelle Baltenweck 1 1 Justus –Liebig University, Giessen, Germany 2 Charles Darwin University, Australia 3 Interna?onal Livestock Research Ins?tute (ILRI) The livestock sector is one of the drivers of improved food security and livelihoods in developing countries. Livestock development in Africa is, however, constrained by animal diseases, with major economic, nutri?onal, and health consequences. Animal health services, especially for the poorest farmers, is generally inaccessible, and of poor quality; characterized by poor uptake of exis?ng control technologies i.e. farmer access. This requires a bePer understanding of farmer decisionmaking when faced with animal health choices. Dairy farmers aPach different values to different animal health service characteris?cs. By quan?fying the welfare impacts of the preferred animal health service characteris?cs, the findings of the study can: • Inform the design and delivery of high quality and costeffec?ve animal health services • Guide the design and delivery of animal health services on the characteris?cs to priori?ze, in cases of resource constraints Immaculate Omondi [email protected] ● P.O. Box 3070900100 Nairobi, Kenya ● +254 20 422 3000 ● www.ilri.org Acknowledgements: Interna?onal Livestock Research Ins?tute (ILRI) and the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) Funding: Interna?onal Livestock Research Ins?tute (ILRI) and the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) This document is licensed for use under a Crea?ve Commons APribu?on –Non commercialShare Alike 3.0 Unported License September 2014 Dairy farmers prefer to have animal services offered rather than having no service. Method: Discrete choice experiment, a mul?aPribute preference elici?ng method based on random u?lity theory and the characteris?cs theory of value. Data: Collected from 300 dairy farm households in Nandi District, Kenya (milkshed) in three East African Dairy Development Project (EADD) sites. Analysed the data using: 1) Basic Random Parameter Logit (RPL) model 2) RPL with interac?on effects to account for sources of preference heterogeneity Introduc?on Materials and methods Results Research into use Figure 1: Map of Kenya showing study sites In order of priority, the farmers prefer animal health services that: 1. Are offered alongside training on animal husbandry 2. Are accompanied by followups on animal health afer treatment 3. Are accompanied by followups vaccina?on and deworming of animals 4. Are offered by dairy hubs 5. Have a flexible payment system (cash and checkoff) • Group membership in a producer organiza?on • Volume of marketed output (milk) EADD project aims at improving dairy produc?on and increasing farmers incomes in East Africa through integrated interven?ons along the dairy value chain that are centered around ‘dairy hubs’. Influenced by: Photos: ILRI Photo: EADD PROJECT Farmerowned collec?ve marke?ng system that enhance farmer access to milk markets and dairyrelated services (including animal health services) . September 2014
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Using choice experiments: Facilita4ng priority se6ng in provision of animal health services Immaculate Omondi1, 3, Kers5n Zander2 , Siegfried Bauer 3 and Isabelle Baltenweck1
1Justus –Liebig University, Giessen, Germany 2Charles Darwin University, Australia 3Interna?onal Livestock Research Ins?tute (ILRI)
The livestock sector is one of the drivers of improved food security and livelihoods in developing countries. Livestock development in Africa is, however, constrained by animal diseases, with major economic, nutri?onal, and health consequences. Animal health services, especially for the poorest farmers, is generally inaccessible, and of poor quality; characterized by poor uptake of exis?ng control technologies i.e. farmer access. This requires a bePer understanding of farmer decision-‐making when faced with animal health choices.
Dairy farmers aPach different values to different animal health service characteris?cs. By quan?fying the welfare impacts of the preferred animal health service characteris?cs, the findings of the study can: • Inform the design and delivery of high quality and cost-‐effec?ve animal health services • Guide the design and delivery of animal health services on the characteris?cs to priori?ze, in cases of resource constraints
Immaculate Omondi [email protected] ● P.O. Box 30709-‐00100 Nairobi, Kenya ● +254 20 422 3000 ● www.ilri.org
Acknowledgements: Interna?onal Livestock Research Ins?tute (ILRI) and the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) Funding: Interna?onal Livestock Research Ins?tute (ILRI) and the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD)
This document is licensed for use under a Crea?ve Commons APribu?on –Non commercial-‐Share Alike 3.0 Unported License September 2014
Dairy farmers prefer to have animal services offered rather than having no service.
Method: Discrete choice experiment, a mul?-‐aPribute preference elici?ng method based on random u?lity theory and the characteris?cs theory of value.
Data: Collected from 300 dairy farm households in Nandi District, Kenya (milk-‐shed) in three East African Dairy Development Project (EADD) sites. Analysed the data using: 1) Basic Random Parameter Logit (RPL) model
2) RPL with interac?on effects -‐ to account for sources of preference heterogeneity
Introduc?on
Materials and methods
Results
Research into use
Figure 1: Map of Kenya showing study sites
In order of priority, the farmers prefer animal health services that:
1. Are offered alongside training on animal husbandry
2. Are accompanied by follow-‐ups on animal health afer treatment
3. Are accompanied by follow-‐ups vaccina?on and deworming of animals
4. Are offered by dairy hubs
5. Have a flexible payment system (cash and check-‐off)
• Group membership in a producer organiza?on
• Volume of marketed output (milk)
EADD project aims at improving dairy produc?on and increasing farmers incomes in East Africa through integrated interven?ons along the dairy value chain that are centered around ‘dairy hubs’.
Influenced by:
Photos: ILRI Photo: EADD PROJECT
Farmer-‐owned collec?ve marke?ng system that enhance farmer access to milk markets and dairy-‐related services (including animal health services) .
September 2014
