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‘Where chickens and women rule’—new postcards series on gender in poultry farming

The African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) program has created a series of postcards relating to the challenges of gender in poultry development. The postcard series is named after the campaign ‘Where chickens and women rule’ and relates to various publications on gender that the program has released. Continue reading

ACGG / Chickens / East Africa / Ethiopia / gender / ILRI / LiveGene / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nigeria / Poultry / Research / Southern Africa / Tanzania / West Africa

ACGG introduces its common conceptual gender framework

This poster, which was presented at the 7th Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Meeting of the Global Alliance for Sustainable Livestock (GASL) on 11 May 2017 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to introduces the common conceptual gender framework. Continue reading

ACGG / Chickens / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nigeria / Poultry / Research / Staff / West Africa

Role of university-industry nexus in sustainable smallholder chicken development

The African Chicken Genetic Gains Nigeria (ACGG-NG) project staff participated in a three-day workshop jointly organized by the Association of African Universities (AAU) and the Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Continue reading

ACGG / Chickens / Ethiopia / gender / ILRI / LiveGene / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nigeria / Poultry / Research / Tanzania

Annual report shows chicken project improving gender awareness, community participation and nutrition

The past (second) year has been an exciting year for the African Chicken Genetic Gains program, with added emphasis on gender, the partnership with the ATONU program on nutrition and expanding innovation platforms to community-level platforms. Continue reading

ACGG / Chickens / CRPs / East Africa / Ethiopia / gender / Genetics / ILRI / In focus / LiveGene / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nigeria / Poultry / Research / Southern Africa / Tanzania / West Africa

Where chickens and women rule: ACGG rolls out gender awareness campaign

A new ‘gender’ campaign—Where chickens and women rule—aims at raising the awareness of the public and of ACGG’s audiences about the stakes of gender in poultry development. It will be running from April to June and September to October. Continue reading

ACGG / Animal Breeding / Chickens / Genetics / ILRI / LiveGene / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / Poultry / West Africa

Presentation on increasing chicken productivity at African agricultural science workshop

The following presentation was given by Jasmine Bruno at the Technologies, Platforms and Partnerships in Support of the African Agricultural Science Agenda workshop in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on 4–5 April 2017. Continue reading