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 ...

The World Poultry Foundation is excited to announce the appointment of Maureen Stickel as the Director of International Program Development. Maureen will be a part of the WPF Executive Team and will oversee the growth and development of WPF’s global program portfolio. Maureen will build upon WPF’s in-house ...

The World Poultry Foundation has announced the appointment of Wytse Vellema as Senior Program Manager. Wytse will be a part of the WPF Executive Team and will be responsible for managing the dual-purpose development programs in Africa and engaging with other development organizations and private companies to build distribution networks ...

The board of directors of the World Poultry Foundation, a global organization devoted to combating world hunger through the rural production of poultry in emerging countries, has elected Elton Maddox as chairman. He succeeds Eric Joiner who recently announced that he is retiring after 10 years in the position. A veteran ...

The World Poultry Foundation regrets to announce the passing of Adriaan Weststrate. Adriaan was a valuable contributor to the WPF Board, and his detailed understanding of the poultry industry was a valuable asset to the foundation. We will miss his infectious personality and outgoing spirit and our condolences go out ...

The World Poultry Foundation (WPF) and its partners in Tanzania and Nigeria reached a milestone recently, having delivered brooded dual-purpose chickens to more than one million smallholder farmers. The WPF has been implementing the African Poultry Multiplication Initiative (APMI) since 2017 in Tanzania and Nigeria. The APMI establishes a supply of ...

Contact: Randall Ennis | Chief Executive Officer | ennis@worldpoultryfoundation.org The World Poultry Foundation (WPF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Elton Maddox to serve a three-year term on the Board of Directors. A veteran of the US poultry industry, Elton joined what is now Wayne Farms in 1974, working in ...

Contact: Ashley Wiskirchen | Previously Communications & Marketing, WPF The World Poultry Foundation added four professionals in the poultry and egg industries to its Board of Directors. The WPF is pleased to introduce these new members, who will bring their diverse expertise to our organization. “By expanding our board, we have ...