Prevention of tick borne diseases is often through tick control practices. This article diagnoses tick control practices, knowledge underlying these practices and how knowledge is shared at the wildlife-livestock interface in Laikipia County, Kenya. It identifies diverse land use and tick control practices by different land and livestock owners from a scientific knowledge-based (techne) and context driven experiential knowledge-based (metis) perspective.

Interviews, focus group discussions, observations and documents yielded qualitative data to unravel i) the historical development of tick control in Kenya ii) techne and metis tick control practices within three ranches and among pastoralists in Laikipia County, and iii) status of tick knowledge sharing between stakeholders.

Historical tick control measures date back to about 100 years ago, with increasingly strong veterinary measures over the decades under government control. However, the veterinary control system collapsed around 1991 and livestock owners took tick control into their own hands. All respondents indicated having relevant techne available about tick ecology and tick management practices. To adapt to the changing social, economic and institutional context, they further developed metis, integrating the known techne. Metis and techne complemented each other. Our study reveals that metis is developed within stakeholder groups. The data also suggest that metis practices sometimes develop risky effects to animal, human and environmental health. Knowledge on tick control is mainly shared within a social group, not between groups. We esteem, knowledge sharing between different stakeholder groups (ranchers, pastoralists, DVS) may provide opportunities for better informed decision-making based on fruitful combinations of techne and metis for effective and safe tick management.

tick传播疾病的预防通常是通过tick控制实践来进行的。本文将诊断壁虱控制实践，这些实践的基础知识以及如何在肯尼亚莱基皮亚县的野生动物-畜牧界共享知识。它从科学知识为基础（techne）和上下文驱动的经验为基础的知识（metis）的角度确定了不同土地和牲畜所有者的不同土地利用和壁虱控制实践。

访谈，焦点小组讨论，观察和文件获得了定性数据，以阐明i）肯尼亚of控制的历史发展ii）三大牧场内以及莱基皮亚县牧民之间的tech和met控制做法，以及iii）knowledge知识共享的状况利益相关者之间。

历史上的tick控制措施可以追溯到大约100年前，在政府控制的几十年中，兽医措施日益强大。但是，1991年左右，兽医控制系统崩溃了，牲畜所有者把owners虫控制权掌握在自己手中。所有受访者均表示有关于tick生态和tick管理实践的相关技术。为了适应不断变化的社会，经济和体制环境，他们进一步发展了整合了已知技术的metis。梅蒂斯和泰恩互补。我们的研究表明，metis是在利益相关者群体中发展的。数据还表明，metis做法有时会对动物，人类和环境健康产生危险影响。有关tick虫控制的知识主要在一个社会群体中共享，而不是在群体之间共享。我们尊敬，