Willingness to Contribute to Bio-Larviciding in the Fight against Malaria: A Contingent Valuation Study among Rice Farmers in Rwanda

Alexis Rulisa, Luuk van Kempen, Leon Mutesa, Emmanuel Hakizimana, Chantal M. Ingabire, Fredrick Kateera, Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt, Michèle van Vugt and Bart van den Borne
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Alexis Rulisa: Medical Research Centre Division, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Kigali 7162, Rwanda
Luuk van Kempen: Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University, 6525 Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Leon Mutesa: Center for Human Genetics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali 4285, Rwanda
Emmanuel Hakizimana: Malaria and Other Parasitic Diseases Division, Rwanda Biomedical Center, Kigali 7162, Rwanda
Chantal M. Ingabire: Medical Research Centre Division, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Kigali 7162, Rwanda
Fredrick Kateera: Academic Medical Center, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Amsterdam, 1012 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt: Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University & Research, 6708 Wageningen, The Netherlands
Michèle van Vugt: Center for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1012 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bart van den Borne: Department of Health Education & Promotion, Maastricht University, 6211 Maastricht, The Netherlands

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 21, 1-20

Abstract: There is broad consensus that successful and sustained larval source management (LSM) interventions, including bio-larviciding campaigns, require embeddedness in local community institutions. Ideally, these community structures should also be capable of mobilizing local resources to (co-)finance interventions. To date, farmer cooperatives, especially cooperatives of rice growers whose economic activity facilitates mosquito breeding, have remained under the radar in designing community-based bio-larviciding campaigns. This study explores the potential of rice farmer cooperatives in Bugesera district, Rwanda, to take up the aforementioned roles. To this purpose, we surveyed 320 randomly selected rice farmers who belonged to one of four rice cooperatives in the area and elicited their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for application of Bti, a popular bio-larvicide, in their rice paddies. Results from a (non-incentivized) bidding game procedure, which tested two alternative contribution schemes showed that financial contributions would be significantly different from zero and sufficient to carry a co-financing share of 15–25 per cent. A strong heterogeneity in mean WTP is revealed across cooperatives, in addition to variation among individual farmers, which needs to be anticipated when engaging farmer cooperatives in LSM.

Keywords: willingness-to-pay; malaria control; larval source management; rice farming; contingent valuation; Rwanda (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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