Estimating the location of individual livestock holdings and their populations in two developing countries for use in spatial disease spread models

Highlights• Foot-and-Mouth disease endangers food security and livelihoods of people.• Spatial models are used to understand the spread of FMD and evaluate control strategies.• Spatial models require data on the location and population of livestock holdings.• Often such data are not available or not useful due to limitations of data/method.• We generated these data which can be used for disease modeling and policymaking.