From the Field

On my recent visit to Zimbabwe, I saw how the Hamara team, with the support of World Poultry Foundation, has been able to further develop their distribution network and deepen their reach into rural communities with their dual-purpose poultry (DPP) chickens. Hamara, our private sector partner in Zimbabwe, bravely kicked ...

The World Poultry Foundation (WPF) is accepting proposals for baseline data collection activities for its APMI program. This consultancy is ultimately dependent on funding awarded. Locations: Sierra Leone, The Gambia Anticipated Start: November-February 2024 (depending on program rollout) Submission deadline: August 15, 2023 World Poultry Foundation APMI Data Collection RFP

This article appears in full on The Peninsula. Click here to read the original article. “The strategic partnership was announced by Bill Gates and Khalifa Al-Kuwari, Director General of QFFD, in the presence of Gates Foundation CEO, Mark Suzman during a panel at the Doha Forum. It will support climate-adaptive ...

The WPF team took advantage of a decline in COVID-19 cases in Sub-Saharan Africa to travel to Zimbabwe this month. We went to visit our partners on the ground, Hamara, who are implementing the APMI model with farmers throughout Zimbabwe (and are also growing into Zambia!). Though the trip was ...

As part of the quarterly review, during the first two weeks of June WPF staff had the opportunity to visit the APMI program in Zimbabwe. We visited several villages where mother units were growing dual-purpose birds to 28 days, before selling them to neighboring households. Since the program only started three ...