Efficient planning of measures limiting epidemic spread requires information on farm
locations and sizes (number of animals per farm). However, such data are rarely available.
The intensification process which is operating in most low-and middle-income countries
(LMICs), comes together with a spatial clustering of farms, a characteristic epidemiological
models are sensitive to. We developed farm distribution models predicting both the location
and the number of animals per farm, while accounting for the spatial clustering of farms in …