From the Field

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 ...

The World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has released a series of new training materials to help small- scale poultry farmers improve their farming methods and incomes. The WPF explains that small-scale producers are farmers who typically start with just a few birds in their gardens, but who later grow their flocks ...

A free mobile app for chicken farmers is set to make optimal poultry nutrition easier, while also helping farmers save money and improve profits. The FeedMixer App, now available on the Apple and Google Play Stores, is designed by poultry nutrition experts at the Poultry Science Department at the University ...

Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) has signed a 5-year, $13 million agreement with World Poultry Foundation (WPF) to expand its flagship program “the African Poultry Multiplication Initiative (APMI)” to The Gambia and Sierra Leone. This new partnership will increase poultry production by up to 200% compared to local indigenous breeds for over 100 ...

The US-based World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has released a series of training videos to help poultry farmers become more profitable with low-input dual-purpose breeds for both meat and eggs. Dual purpose breeds, which are produced through modern selective breeding, are more productive, faster growing, and better able to thrive off ...

The US-based World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has released a series of training videos to help Africa’s poultry farmers raise healthier birds and so enhance both their profitability and their communities’ nutritional status. WPF CEO Randall Ennis says the video series was developed to support WPF’s key goals of ...

WPF training videos help Africa’s poultry farmers manage for success The US-based World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has released a series of training videos to help Africa’s poultry farmers become more profitable through more effective record keeping and proper vaccination. The WPF, which has actively supported emerging poultry farmers ...

US-based WPF releases video series to help Africa’s farmers improve poultry production With poultry increasingly, a focus for emerging farmers across Africa, the US-based World Poultry Foundation (WPF) has released a series of training videos to help farmers reduce waste and optimize profits. Feed accounts for up to 70% of ...