From the Field

By: Lindani Nkwanyana As a boy growing up in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Lindani Nkwanyana dreamed of flying airplanes. “I wanted to be a pilot,” he recalls. “I thought that was the way to soar.” But his career would take off in a very different way. In 2005, while waiting to hear ...

By: Phumzile Mkhungo | eNhlanhleni, Underberg Originally published at NewzSA.co.za Photo: MEC Thembeni kaMadlopha- Mthethwa for Agriculture & Rural Development propelling planting season Launch Picture by: Phumzile Mkhungo KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development, Thembeni KaMadlopha-Mthethwa, has called on young people to take up farming and turn agriculture ...

By: World Poultry Foundation In 2024, the World Poultry Foundation (WPF) was honored to join the Sustainable Transformation of Enterprises in the Poultry Sector (STEPS) program in Lesotho, a U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food for Progress-funded initiative implemented by Land O’Lakes Venture37 (V37). Our role focused on laying ...

Vuyani Mfene is defined by his enthusiasm and passion for poultry farming.  Shortly after completing the World Poultry Foundation-sponsored Managing a Poultry Abattoir course at the KwaZulu-Natal Poultry Institute, the young South African proudly shared with KZNPI staff his achievements  – rows of plump, equally sized and neatly packaged fresh chicken.   ...

The board of directors of the World Poultry Foundation hereby go on record in commendation of Alan Habegger for his dedicated service that contributed to the formation of the World Poultry Foundation (WPF) by virtue of his leadership with the predecessor organization to the WPF, the USAPEEC International Poultry Development ...

This story is one in a series from Frances Chisholm highlighting stories of lives impacted by World Poultry Foundation programs and workshops both in the U.S. and abroad. We encourage you to learn more about Ms. Chisholm and our poultry projects in South Africa. “It’s very crucial to ...

This story is one in a series from Frances Chisholm highlighting stories of lives impacted by World Poultry Foundation programs and workshops both in the U.S. and abroad. We encourage you to learn more about Ms. Chisholm and our poultry projects in South Africa. “I learned to cut handling ...

This story is one in a series from Frances Chisholm highlighting stories of lives impacted by World Poultry Foundation programs and workshops both in the U.S. and abroad. We encourage you to learn more about Ms. Chisholm and our poultry projects in South Africa. Start-up broiler farmer Thutego Matlala ...

The World Poultry Foundation partners with the Zimbabwean registered non-profit Growing Farmers Trust to fund training opportunities for Zimbabwean poultry farmers on US poultry farms. Placements are arranged through a partnership with the WISE Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Dyersburg, Tennessee, under the US Department of State J-1 ...

This story is one in a series from Frances Chisholm highlighting stories of lives impacted by World Poultry Foundation programs and workshops both in the U.S. and abroad. We encourage you to learn more about Ms. Chisholm and our poultry projects in South Africa. We caught up with Fortunate ...

This story is one in a series from Frances Chisholm highlighting stories of lives impacted by World Poultry Foundation programs and workshops both in the U.S. and abroad. We encourage you to learn more about Ms. Chisholm and our poultry projects in South Africa. Asked about the best part ...

Checking in with World Poultry Foundation sponsored intern Sethabile "Seh" Dlamini since her return to South Africa, the vivacious young poultry farmer effused with good news:  In June she was hired to manage a new layer farm, Iyanda Holdings, which trades as Wonderland Foods.  Located on the edge of Durban, ...

Asked about the best part of the recent Hatchery Management course that she attended at South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Poultry Institute, Fortunate Shivambu demurred, “Everything is imperative, everything is linked. You have to understand the whole process.” The young Hatchery operator, with a degree in Animal Production, a focus on ...

Pako Jood’s life took an unforeseen turn when he moved back to the family farm from his IT job in Johannesburg as South Africa entered its first hard COVID lockdown in early 2020. Years earlier, his father had bought an incubator to produce chicks for his broiler business, but the ...

Currently, the sole World Poultry Foundation-funded farm intern from South Africa in the US, Indiphile Bezana is drawing on a well of inner strength as she settles into life on a remote commercial poultry farm in the Arizona desert, a long way from the verdant pastures of home in South ...