Participatory study

The results of this investigation revealed potential constraints in implementing community-based tsetse control, an idea originally considered by the researchers. Instead the villagers recommended wider use of trypanocidal drugs as the best option and requested assistance in learning how best to apply them. The proposed research strategy was thus changed and new proposals prepared to investigate existing drug use, assess levels of possible drug resistance and design participative training courses on ´better use of trypanocides´.

Participatory methods can thus provide a useful alternative to the traditional questionnaire approach for obtaining information from farmers.