Category Archives: Nigeria

Research and awareness raising increase demand for cassava peel-based chicken feeds in Nigeria
Animal Feeding / Article / Chickens / Crop residues / Environment / FFD / Livelihoods / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nigeria / Pro-Poor Livestock / Research / RTB / West Africa

Research and awareness raising increase demand for cassava peel-based chicken feeds in Nigeria

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Hundreds of Nigerian chicken farmers in the southwestern state of Oyo have expressed interest in using cassava mash in poultry feeds. In two meetings of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) in late March 2018, many farmers said they feel they may have found a viable low-cost high-quality alternative in the cassava mash. Continue reading →

Celebrate World Antibiotic Awareness Week by updating yourself on why health experts are so concerned
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Celebrate World Antibiotic Awareness Week by updating yourself on why health experts are so concerned

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This week is World Antibiotic Awareness Week. Get yourself updated with this useful short overview on the rising global problem of antimicrobial resistance by reading this ‘Factbox’ from Thomson Reuters Foundation. Continue reading →

Innovative cassava peels processing factories launched in Nigeria
Crop residues / Feeds / FFD / HUMIDTROPICS / Livestock / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nigeria / Research / RTB

Innovative cassava peels processing factories launched in Nigeria

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New factories that will transform cassava peels into high-quality feed for livestock have been launched in Nigeria. A prototype cassava peel processing plant was launched in in Ojakpata community of Kogi State in March 2017. A month later (April 2017) a similar factory was launched in Benue State. Continue reading →

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Where wealth and opportunity walk on four legs—AFKInsider

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with a growing number of firms gobbling up arable land in Africa—not solely for crop production but also for livestock and cattle—investment shops are slowly redirecting capital to this agricultural subsector. Investing in this segment of African economies can be transformative, as a significant portion of African wealth and growth opportunity is walking on four legs on the African continent. Continue reading →

Local wars and bad water—the real killers threatening 20 million people in not 1 but 4 drought-hit countries
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Local wars and bad water—the real killers threatening 20 million people in not 1 but 4 drought-hit countries

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For the first time since anyone can remember, there is a very real possibility of four famines—in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen—breaking out at once, endangering more than 20 million lives. Continue reading →

No exit strategy: More than 100 Somali’s, mostly young and old, have died of hunger and disease
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No exit strategy: More than 100 Somali’s, mostly young and old, have died of hunger and disease

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More than one hundred vulnerable people of the South—most of them old and young—have died from lack of food and water-borne diseases in a 48-hour period in the rural Bay administrative region of southwestern Somalia. This hot and semi-arid southern region is devastated by drought as well as by the operations of a militant Islamist group known as Al-Shabaab. Continue reading →

The ‘big bet’ on chickens for Africa
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The ‘big bet’ on chickens for Africa

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The African Chicken Genetic Gains project is on a mission to bring ‘more productive chickens to African smallholders’. Led by ILRI, and backed by the deep pockets of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the African Chicken Genetic Gains project aims to improve the genetic makeup of African chickens. The initiative, which is initially being rolled out in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania, is part of what the Microsoft founder has called his ‘big bet’ on chickens, which also includes a promise to donate 100,000 of the birds to families and communities in the world’s poorest nations. . . . Continue reading →

If Africa learnt to feed its chickens, it could feed its people—Calestous Juma
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If Africa learnt to feed its chickens, it could feed its people—Calestous Juma

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‘Africa, which imports nearly 83% of the food it consumes, has a real chicken and egg problem. The continent is caught between pressure from imports in some countries and an inability to meet demand in others.’ Article by Calestous Juma republished from The Conversation. Continue reading →

Why Melinda and Bill Gates are betting big on chickens (hint: ‘the ATM of the poor’)
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Why Melinda and Bill Gates are betting big on chickens (hint: ‘the ATM of the poor’)

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Our foundation is betting on chickens. Alongside partners throughout sub-Saharan Africa, we are working to create sustainable market systems for poultry. It’s especially important for these systems to make sure farmers can buy birds that have been properly vaccinated and are well suited to the local growing conditions. Our goal: to eventually help 30 percent of the rural families in sub-Saharan Africa raise improved breeds of vaccinated chickens, up from just 5 percent now. . . . Continue reading →