Penning pigs: Pig rearing practices, biosecurity measures, and outbreaks of African swine fever in central Uganda
In this article, I explore why a number of smallholder pig farmers in central Uganda decided not to implement the biosecurity measures advocated by veterinarians. I focus on the infectious disease, African swine fever, to illustrate how the biosecurity measures intended to limit the risk of disease,...
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Society for Applied Anthropology
2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114345 |
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