From the Field

Contact: Richard Fritz | WPF Managing Director Stone Mountain, Ga. — Mzwandile Duma mentors most of the World Poultry Foundation-supported apprentices in the South Africabased Future Farmers Foundation apprenticeship program. While Duma’s strong background in agriculture is a key characteristic of his leadership, in his mentorship he focuses on developing apprentices’ ...

Contact: Richard Fritz | WPF Managing Director   Stone Mountain, Ga. – With a goal of training 200 poultry producers in record-keeping and financial management, and teaching them how to create financial documents to apply for bank loans, the World Poultry Foundation (WPF) successfully hosted the first of a planned series of financial ...

Contact: Richard Fritz | WPF Managing Director   The combined efforts seek to improve the quality and viability of day-old chicks, enhance management practices to improve incomes, and provide farmers with healthy and productive birds.Stone Mountain, Georgia. — On July 10, 2018, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FOA) announced ...

Contact: Ashley Wiskirchen | Communications & Marketing   Stone Mountain, Georgia. — In April 2018 Eric Joiner, Chairman of the World Poultry Foundation Board of Directors, presented Mark Hickman with an award for distinguished service to the foundation. The Hickman family’s legacy and rich history in poultry has no doubt shaped Mark’...

Contact: Ashley Wiskirchen | Marketing and Communications   Stone Mountain, Georgia. — In April of 2018, the World Poultry Foundation sponsored a two-day training workshop for field extension agents and veterinarians in Ethiopia. Training and educational programs are an essential part of the foundation’s mission. Hands-on training opportunities facilitated by professionals at ...

Contact: Ashley Wiskirchen | Communications & Marketing   Stone Mountain, Georgia. — The World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has signed a second agreement with the KwaZulu-Natal Poultry Institute (KZNPI) in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. This agreement renews initiatives to conduct training programs for smallholder poultry growers and extension agents throughout the region.The agreement’...

Contact: Leah Mulcahy | USA Poultry & Egg Export Council | lmulcahy@usapeec.org   The goal is to improve husbandry skills among small farmers, service providers.  STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – The World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has successfully completed its first two rounds of training to improve the production skills and farm management ...

Contact: Leah Mulcahy | USA Poultry & Egg Export Council | lmulcahy@usapeec.org   Partnership with Future Farmers to Focus on Poultry Husbandry Training in the United States STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – Continuing with its mission to improve poultry and egg production in Sub-Saharan Africa, the World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has given ...

Contact: Leah Mulcahy | USA Poultry & Egg Export Council | lmulcahy@usapeec.org STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – The World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has received a four-year $21.4 million dollar grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to enhance poultry production in Tanzania and Nigeria. Working closely with government and in-country private sector ...

Contact: Leah Mulcahy | USA Poultry & Egg Export Council | lmulcahy@usapeec.org   University Poultry Scientists Help Poultry Farmers Train Peers STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – The World Poultry Foundation (WPF) recently concluded the second phase of a landmark multiyear project to improve poultry and egg production in Ghana by teaching a ...

Contact: Leah Mulcahy | USA Poultry & Egg Export Council | lmulcahy@usapeec.org   Training helps to increase biosecurity, prevent disease spread. STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – The World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has received promising results from a year-long hatchery project in Viet Nam that the organization funded in partnership with the Food ...

Contact: Leah Mulcahy | USA Poultry & Egg Export Council | lmulcahy@usapeec.org   Former CEO of Aviagen Group joins non-profit STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – Randall Ennis, former CEO of the Aviagen Group, has been named president of the World Poultry Foundation, previously known as the USAPEEC International Poultry Development Program (UIPDP). “...

Contact: Leah Mulcahy | USA Poultry & Egg Export Council | lmulcahy@usapeec.org   STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – The World Poultry Foundation launched its new website this week, as part of its rebranding initiative.The rebranding initiative was implemented in 2015 as World Poultry Foundation (WPF) was renamed from the USAPEEC International Poultry ...