Impact

Primary Goal:

Double the income for 15 million people in rural households by the end of 2025 by creating access to quality poultry inputs (using a baseline of 6.6 people in a household)

• Target 15 million
• Through 2020 – 9.59 million

Secondary Goal:

Increase the household income for rural small scale producers who receive dual purpose breeds from a baseline of USD $81 per annum to USD $165 per annum by the end of 2025 (based on 30 birds.)

• Baseline – $81
• Target – $162
• Actual – $188

Demonstrating Real Change

The transference of knowledge and technical skills can change behaviors and practices in production to attain higher productivity and efficiency. See below the number of participants in WPF sponsored education and training programs. Through third party follow-up surveys, we know that a high percentage reported increases in production, finance, or quality of life due to the training.

Total Trainees: 1,722

• Technical – 582
• Financial – 243
• Production – 822
• Veterinary – 75

Retention and Impact

As part of their mission to empower farmers globally, the World Poultry Foundation has undertaken poultry production training for small and disadvantaged growers. In 2019, WPF contracted with the Kwazulu Natal Poultry Institute (KZNPI) to undertake training for 300 farmers and extension agents (train-the-trainer program). We’ve created this report to showcase the impact on those training efforts.

In Progress

Baseline surveys on nutritional impacts have been completed and mid-line surveys are currently underway. This section will be updated with results soon.

“I’m very, very lucky,” Sicelo Gamede exclaims.  “The managers move us around the operation and allow us to shadow them. We are learning how to run the farm.”  “Sometimes I have responsibility for close to a million chickens,” he beams. 

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Nothando “Thando” Sibiya, one of the first WPF-funded South Africans to return from a year-long poultry internship in the US, recently took on a new management position in South Africa.  She now oversees a dozen staff at a larger layer operation.  The new farm’s 13 houses hold 50,000 birds, still “way fewer than at Iowa Cage Free,” where she interned.  In fact, she says with a smile, “that’s like one house in Iowa.” 

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Nkosinathi Zuzumuzi Buthelezi has big plans for a farming career in South Africa when he completes his World Poultry Foundation-funded farm internship at Rose Acre Farms in Indiana at the end of the year.  He has his sights set on setting up a broiler operation in his home town of Nongoma in the heart of Zululand.  “There aren’t any commercial poultry farms in Nongoma.  It’s a good opportunity,” to utilize what I have learned he says. 

Primary Goal:

Increase the number of day old chicks produced and sold to Brooder unit enterprises.

Target of 75,000,000 chicks by the end of 2025

• End of 2017: 4.5 million
• End of 2018: 15.2 million
• End of 2019: 29.9 million
• End of 2020: 48.6 million

Primary Goal:

Increase the number of households reached by the end of 2025.

Target of 2.2 million SHF households

• 2017: 172,147
• 2018: 602,135
• 2019: 1,074,080
• 2020: 1.45 million

In Progress

Baseline surveys on nutritional impacts have been completed and mid-line surveys are currently underway. This section will be updated with results soon.

Primary Goal:

Increase the number of women managed and controlled brooder units. Our target is to engage 70% of women in brooder management

• Current Actual (through 2019) – 68%

Primary Goal:

Increase the number women purchasing and managing small flocks of dual purpose breeds. Our target is to include 85% of women in small flock management.

• Current actual through 2019 – 75.6%

Primary Goal:

Average flock size increasing, which indicates success of performance and increase in income.

• Baseline: 10
• Actual through 2019: 20.1

Primary Goal:

Demonstrate the superior egg laying productivity of tropically adapted dual purpose birds. Additional statistics available by the end of June 2020 as we have funded enumerators in Tanzania to specifically track egg production.

• Baseline for local indigenous birds – 40 eggs per year
• APMI actuals through 2019 – 156 eggs per year

Primary Goal:

Demonstrate the superior growth production of the tropically adapted dual purpose birds being used for meat. The following numbers are based on growth at 14 weeks:

• Baseline (local breeds) – 1.0 kg
• Target 2.0 kg 
• Actual: 2.34 kg

Primary Goal:

Demonstrate reductions in on-farm mortality in the tropically adapted dual purpose birds.

Brooder units:

• Target: 5% at 5 weeks
• 2019: 3.24% at 5 weeks
• Actual through 2020: 2.51%

Primary Goal:

Demonstrate reductions in on-farm mortality in the tropically adapted dual purpose birds.

Small Scale Producers:

• Target: Less than 15% at 70 weeks
• Actual through 2019: 12.1%