From the Field

A travel note from Randall Ennis, CEO of World Poultry Foundation: On my latest visit to Tanzania, I had the opportunity to observe a marketing awareness and messaging to a women’s group in the Pwani village in Tanzania. The presentation was about the value of dual-purpose birds in the ...

In January, I had the opportunity as WPF’s Managing Director to address the AGCO Summit in Berlin.  The annual AGCO Summit brings together experts across various fields, both in agriculture and outside fields that relate to our work, to discuss and explore trends, issues and experiences that can broaden ...

Travel Note: January 30-31 2019 Randall Ennis and Johan van Arendonk, Chief Technology Officer and Director of Breeding Operations from Hendrix Genetics, met in Kolkata (Calcutta) India on in January 2019 to visit with smallholder farmers to review the Kuroiler performance under harsh conditions. The Kuroiler adapts and performs exceptionally well under ...

A travel note from Randall Ennis, CEO of World Poultry Foundation: On December 7, 2018, I went with Korede Afolabi and his team from Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery to visit with smallholder farmers in the villages of Ayegunle and Alouge in the Ogunmakin region of Nigeria. We had the opportunity to meet ...

Recently Richard Fritz spent four days in Cuba working on structure and content for an upcoming two-day WPF funded workshop on egg production designed for members of the Cuban Poultry Research Institute and the Ministry of Agriculture. Over 70 researchers and producers plan to attend the December workshop on layer nutrition, ...

During a recent trip to Ghana World Poultry Foundation’s Managing Director, Richard Fritz, had the opportunity to meet with the association of Women in Poultry Value Chain.  The Women in Poultry Value Chain, a woman-only organization has over 300 members in all 10 regions of Ghana. Members of the organization include ...

In our latest trip to Tanzania, the World Poultry Foundation CFO, Gordon Gossett, went with me to get a first-hand view of the African Poultry Multiplication Initiative project and to meet with all of our partners. During this trip, we visited many rural farmers around Iringa, Njombe, and Dar es ...

In July, I had the privilege of traveling to Nigeria with Mike Welch, the World Poultry Foundation’s Vice Chairman. Together, we visited Nigeria to meet with our partner in the African Poultry Multiplication Initiative project. We are pleased with the progress and the impact of the project is now ...