TY - JOUR
T1 - Caste, livelihoods and livestock
T2 - An exploration of the uptake of livestock vaccination adoption among poor farmers in India
AU - Heffernan, Claire
AU - Thomson, Kim
AU - Nielsen, Louise
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - The study explores the uptake of livestock vaccination among poor farming communities in Tamil Nadu State, India by revisiting innovation diffusion theory. Overall, 601 farmers participated in the study. We found the adoption of particular vaccines was strongly influenced by socio-cultural grouping i.e. caste, rather than other factors such as income, age, education-level or gender. Adoption was also related to specific knowledge frames regarding disease causality, rather than any wider ethno-veterinary beliefs. Thus, the adoption of livestock vaccination is unlikely to improve without knowledge transfer activities, which acknowledge both social divisions and local epistemologies regarding animal health.
AB - The study explores the uptake of livestock vaccination among poor farming communities in Tamil Nadu State, India by revisiting innovation diffusion theory. Overall, 601 farmers participated in the study. We found the adoption of particular vaccines was strongly influenced by socio-cultural grouping i.e. caste, rather than other factors such as income, age, education-level or gender. Adoption was also related to specific knowledge frames regarding disease causality, rather than any wider ethno-veterinary beliefs. Thus, the adoption of livestock vaccination is unlikely to improve without knowledge transfer activities, which acknowledge both social divisions and local epistemologies regarding animal health.
KW - Caste
KW - Diffusion of innovation
KW - India
KW - Vaccination adoption
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78650236413&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/jid.1643
DO - 10.1002/jid.1643
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:78650236413
VL - 23
SP - 103
EP - 118
JO - Journal of International Development
JF - Journal of International Development
SN - 0954-1748
IS - 1
ER -