Small Holder Poultry
The Satpuda - Replicas of Native Chicken in Rural Poultry Production
This initiative has benefitted over 40,000 rural households in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, and has provided a means of complementary livelihood to marginal farmers, and in particular women farmers.
[Maharashtra]
[Satpuda Desi]
[Small Holder Poultry]
Making Modern Poultry Markets Work for the Poor - An example of Cooperative Development from Madhya Pradesh, India
This note documents the processes adopted by the women poultry rearers to break market entry barriers and become a viable and sustainable enterprise.
[Small Holder Poultry]
[PRADAN]
[Madhya Pradesh]
[Poultry Producers' Cooperative]
Government-Led Integrated Approach for Delivery of Services to Smallholder Poultry Farmers
This Good Practice note documents the work of the Bastar Integrated Livestock Development Programme (BILDP), and demonstrates how simple cost effective interventions such as low cost protein rich feeding, de-worming, vaccination, low cost housing, egg-candling, use of bamboo for poultry feeders and waterers, have strengthened household poultry production systems of tribal farmers in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in India.
[BILDP]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[BASTAR]
Mitigating Diseases and Saving Valuable Assets - Poultry Vaccinators Delivering Services to the Doorstep of the Poorest in Bangladesh
This Good Practice note highlights how an innovative government – civil society collaborative initiative succeeded in developing a sustainable livestock health delivery system in each district of Bangladesh.
[Bangladesh]
[Women]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Poultry Vaccinators]
Sustainable Livelihoods for the Rural Poor through Small Scale Poultry Rearing
This Good Practice note reviews the BRAC-DLS Poultry Model and illustrates how smallholder poultry production can help in income generation and empowerment of women while mitigating malnutrition, unemployment and poverty.
[Bangladesh]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Livelihoods]
[Women]
Lighting up Lives - Biogas from Poultry Litter as a Sustainable Energy Resource
This Potential Good Practice showcases the joint effort of communities, NGOs and government agencies to set up and run eco-friendly biogas plants that, by making use of available poultry litter, provide a low-cost source of energy to rural households with positive economic, environmental and health returns.
[Bangladesh]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Biogas]
[Poultry Litter]
Reviving the Indigenous Poultry Breed, Kadaknath - Enhancing livelihoods of tribals through niche market opportunities
This potential Good Practice note describes a government initiative to introduce and promote the rearing of the Kadaknath poultry breed, an indigenous breed of Western Madhya Pradesh.
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Kadaknath]
Backyard Poultry Farming Through Self-Help Groups in West Bengal - Towards Good Livestock Policies
The note documents one of the Family-based Poultry Distribution Schemes of the Government of West Bengal under which poultry birds are distributed to poor rural households throughout the State.
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Rhode Island Red (RIR)]
Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development - a Backyard Poultry Value Chain Increases Assets, Income and Nutrition
This Good Practice note showcases a successful private sector - community partnership where vulnerable families in West Bengal have been linked with a rural poultry value chain that delivers three week old chicks to rearer's doorsteps.
[Kuroiler]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[West Bengal]
Unpacking the 'Poor Productivity' Myth - Women Resurrecting Poultry Biodiversity and Livelihoods in Andhra Pradesh, India
This Good Practice Note presents an argument for the promotion of indigenous backyard poultry. The note reviews a case study documenting an in-situ poultry biodiversity conservation and livelihood generation intervention by 1800 rural women in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.
[Andhra Pradesh]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Aseel]
[ANTHRA]
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