African Chicken Genetic Gains is an Africa-wide collaboration led by the International Livestock Research Institute. Partners from Ethiopia, the Netherlands, Nigeria and Tanzania will test and make available high-producing, farmer-preferred genotypes that increase smallholder chicken productivity in Africa.

Innovation platforms are one of the key elements of the approach; they are multi-stakeholder mechanisms that help generate and mobilize farmer needs and engage with important actors like the private sector.

African Chicken Genetic Gains collaborators and partners include:

• Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
• Haramaya University, Ethiopia
• Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta, Nigeria (FUNAAB)
• Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
• National Animal Production Research Institute, Nigeria (NAPRI)
• Tanzania Livestock Research Institute (TALIRI)
• Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
• Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen UR
• PICO-Eastern Africa
• Koepon Foundation

The program is led  by the International Livestock Research Institute.

The program is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

For more information:

Tadelle Dessie
ILRI
Addis Ababa
t.dessie@cgiar.org