We asked women to describe their challenges, opportunities and experiences of keeping poultry. In these videos, women involved in the ACGG project around Addis Ababa in Ethiopia share their experiences. Continue reading
Category Archives: East Africa
Chicken farming has transformed my livelihood: Meseret’s story
Meseret Girmay is one of the beneficiaries of the ACGG project. The following is her success story in chicken farming. Continue reading
ACGG teams meet in Addis Ababa this week to roll out program’s gender strategy
Next week (18–22 September 2017) three important African Chicken Genetic Gains(ACGG)-related meetings will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.management team meeting, the scientific and industry advisory committee meeting and a crucial gender strategy workshop set to roll out gender work once and for all in ACGG. Continue reading
Improved chicken are good for our nutrition and health: Embaye and Atsede’s story
Embaye Brhane and his wife Atsede Tsegay, from Tigray, talk about the benefits that chicken rearing brings to their family. Continue reading
Ethiopian National Veterinary Institute develops manuals on managing key chicken diseases
The Ethiopian National Veterinary Institute, with the support of partners, has developed three training manuals on infectious bursal disease, marek’s disease, newcastle disease; for training veterinarians and agricultural outreach officers. In Ethiopia, as in the rest of Africa, chicken production is integral to the livelihoods of smallholder rural households. Poultry production is a source of income … Continue reading
Going Places with the next generation at ‘Doro family day’
The Going Places project, in collaboration with the ACGG Ethiopia team, organized an open ‘Doro family day’, a special event for children and their parents, at the ILRI campus in Addis Ababa on 10 June 2017. Continue reading
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
Advanced training course on ‘statistical analysis of ACGG on-farm data’ 12–16 June 2017 in Addis Ababa
A new ACGG advanced training course on ‘statistical analysis of ACGG data’ will take place on 12-16 June 2017 on the ILRI Addis Ababa campus in Ethiopia. 15 ACGG participants and 10 international students can participate to this course. Continue reading
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
Going Places Project analyses heritage of Ethiopia’s indigenous chicken breeds
As part of a fact finding and data collection mission for the Going Places project, a four member archeology team visited Ethiopia in February 2017. The following post describes the objectives of their visit and expected findings. Continue reading