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Addressing the challenges of cattle and beef trade in Nigeria

Livestock play a key role in many smallholder farmer households across the developing world. Animals offer numerous livelihood options including income and food in the form of meat, milk and eggs. To many, animals are a secure source of daily food and nutrition. In Nigeria, cattle are important...

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From breeding to genetic solutions strategy—how a livestock genetics innovation achieves ever-growing impact at scale

The Tropical Poultry Genetic Solutions Strategy (TPGS) is a genetics innovation strategy for identifying and testing high-producing farmer-preferred poultry genotypes and using them at scale to address income, nutrition and empowerment challenges in Africa, Asia and beyond. Designed in 2014, TPGS...

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New case study presents nine-year follow-up of pilot project to improve food safety in Bodija market, Nigeria

Goat in a market in Nigeria (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Foodborne disease is a major public health problem in poor countries, but we lack effective, sustainable and scalable approaches that work in the traditional, informal markets where most fresh, risky food is sold. A promising...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

ACGG Nigeria baseline data report now available

Chicken smallholder farmer in Nigeria (photo credit: ACGG Nigeria) The African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) project conducted a baseline survey in 2015-2016 across ACGG countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania) to understand, define and characterize the current smallholder chicken production...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
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African Development Bank-supported livestock team and Nigerian agricultural lending agency to scale up proven animal production technologies

By Adeniyi Adediran, TAAT livestock compact coordinator in Nigeria. Edited by Paul Karaimu. Launched in 2018 to support the Feed Africa Strategy of the African Development Bank, the ‘Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation’ ( TAAT ) initiative aims to increase food production in the...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

Results from Nigeria chicken sector survey now available

About 10% of the Nigerian population is engaged in poultry production, mostly on subsistence and small- or medium-sized farms. The poultry industry is the most dynamic and fastest growing segment in the animal husbandry subsector in the country. As part of its work of testing, delivering and...

  • Beamlak Tesfaye
AgHealth blog

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health publishes 2017 annual report

The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health ( A4NH ) has published its 2017 annual report which highlights the program’s accomplishments and activities during the first year of its second phase. Detailed in the report are research, events and results from across A4NH’s five...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

Ethiopia study to assess empowerment and gender dynamics in chicken production and marketing

Participants learning how to use the scoring method during an ACGG data collectors training in Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Annet Mulema). Drawing on recommendations from the newly devised gender strategy, the African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) project is set to study how empowerment or...

  • Beamlak Tesfaye
African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

ACGG gender strategy: Program implementation plan now available

The African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) program has developed a program-level gender strategy implementation plan based on its gender strategy document . The implementation plan is structured in line with the five action areas of ACGG’s gender strategy. It identifies key activities and also the...

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

Participants in an executive meeting of the Poultry Association of Nigeria in Ibadan, Nigeria, in late March 2018 (photo credit: ILRI/Yinka Olasusi). Hundreds of Nigerian chicken farmers in the southwestern state of Oyo have expressed interest in using cassava mash in poultry feeds. Common animal...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

ACGG exhibits its work at Nigerian Society for Animal Production conference

Some visitors at ACGG-Nigeria’s exhibition booth (photo credit: ACGG Nigeria) The African Chicken Genetic Gains Project in Nigeria (ACGG Nigeria) engaged livestock stakeholders, farmers and researchers in Imo State during a conference of the Nigerian Society for Animal Production (NSAP) held 19-21...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

ACGG Nigeria holds sixth innovation platform and second national poultry forum meetings

The sixth national innovation platform (NIP) and second Smallholder Poultry Forum (SPF) meetings of the African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) Nigeria project was held in Owerri, Imo State on 22–23 March 2018. In the wake of these events, the project team organized a project management team meeting...

  • Ewen Le Borgne