Frands Dolberg

A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR USING POULTRY AS A TOOL IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION Revised version 1

Stimulated by work pioneered in Bangladesh, the paper outlines a conceptual framework for using p... more Stimulated by work pioneered in Bangladesh, the paper outlines a conceptual framework for using poultry as a tool in poverty alleviation. There is now evidence from several countries that small poultry enterprises with adequate institutional support targeting the poorest rural women and their families can help them take the first step out of poverty. However, for the concept to work as a poverty breaking tool (i) the beneficiaries must come from the poorest segments of the village, (ii) the cost of producing an egg must be lower than in the commercial sector, (iii) an enabling environment must be established to keep a small flock of hens, inter alia, access in the village to feed, vaccine, vaccinations services, micro-finance, marketing and other inputs and services, and (iv) the enabling environment must contain institutional and political space to provide the people involved the possibilities and opportunities to take the next step out of poverty. In conclusion it is noted that for this concept to remain an important tool in the fight against poverty, it is necessary to have a reliable tool to document the achieved results and have an institutional and political environment in which sharing of information is encouraged. One of the next steps in replication of the concept will be to institutionalise a paradigm, which encourages processes in which experiences are accumulated and disseminated. The involved staff must learn from mistakes and successes and build up a framework that facilitates training, education, and research.

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Poultry production for livelihood improvement and poverty alleviation

Proceedings of the International Conference Poultry in …, 2007

Millennium Development Goal Number One is to halve the number of poor people in the world by 2015... more Millennium Development Goal Number One is to halve the number of poor people in the world by 2015. The present paper contains a discussion, based on the livelihoods framework, of how and under what conditions small poultry units can contribute to the achievement of this and other Millennium Development Goals. The paper presents the livelihoods framework along with its micro-and macro-level features. Subsequently, it discusses the role of poultry in asset creation and as an entry point to improved livelihoods. A series of cases are presented: from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Swaziland, which illustrate various arguments related to the use of poultry for livelihood improvement and poverty alleviation. Strategies that use poultry production for livelihood improvement and poverty alleviation will be most relevantly applied in the countries where it has been most difficult to get development moving. These countries are variously described by development agencies as low-income countries under stress (LICUS), highly indebted poor countries (HIPC), low-income food deficit countries (LIFDCs), or countries that are placed low on the UN Human Development Index. The smallholder poultry approach is biased towards poor women; one estimate is that it is relevant for 160 million women and their families. However, it will not be easy to reach these potential beneficiaries, as bad governance and weak institutions characterize many of the countries where they live. Against this background, it is concluded that international organizations and networks have a particularly important role to play as storehouses of knowledge and technical expertise. Awareness among planners and decision-makers of the potential of poultry as a tool in poverty alleviation seems to be low. Improving knowledge among these stakeholders and strengthening the human and institutional capacity needed to implement the concepts are priorities.

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Decision Tools for Family Poultry Development

The Decision Tools address the situation of four distinct family poultry production systems and t... more The Decision Tools address the situation of four distinct family poultry production systems and their development opportunities: small extensive scavenging, extensive scavenging, semi-intensive production and small-scale intensive production. They describe the poultry production systems, including their required inputs and expected outputs and the techniques and tools used to assess the operational environment, in order to design interventions suited to the local conditions. Practical technical information are provided about genetics and reproduction, feeds and feeding, poultry health, housing, marketing and value chain development, microfinance and credit, institutional development, training and extension, and creating an enabling policy. Guidance is then provided on how to utilize this relevant information to design and develop projects targeted at specific conditions.

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Integration of the fibrous feed improvement methods in the feeding systems in Asia as influenced by socio economical aspects

Annales de Zootechnie, 1996

The objective of the paper is to discuss some of the aspects related to adoption rates of fibrous... more The objective of the paper is to discuss some of the aspects related to adoption rates of fibrous feed improvement methods in Asian feeding systems, principally those influenced by socio-economic factors. Following a description of the circumstances in which uptake have taken place, the paper identifies strong institutional support in the form of well functioning extension, marketing and credit services as pre-conditions for uptake. Lack of research with a farmer (problem-led research) perspective is another constraint.

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A livestock development approach that contributes to poverty alleviation and widespread improvement of nutrition among the poor

Livestock Research For Rural Development, 2001

... Several years ago, Robert Chambers in his book Rural Development: Putting the Last First re... more

Evolution of the Poultry Model - a Pathway out of Poverty1

Summary The paper describes the evolution of what is called the Bangladesh Poultry Model from the... more Summary The paper describes the evolution of what is called the Bangladesh Poultry Model from the beginning in the 1970s till today on the basis of material gathered in the context of the GOB/IFAD Bangladesh Smallholder Livestock Project, implemented 1993 - 1998 and the recently formulated GOB-IFAD 'Micro Finance and Technical Support Project'. It is concluded that the poultry model

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Evolution of the Poultry Model–a Pathway out of Poverty

Page 1. 1 Evolution of the Poultry Model - a Pathway out of Poverty1 Frands Dolberg2, Edward Mall... more

A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR USING POULTRY AS A TOOL IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION Revised version 1

Cross Bred Hens Under Semi Scavenging Condition in Bangladesh

... concerning the introduction of exotic breed of hens of high yielding varieties (HYV) and thei... more

A Review of Household Poultry Production as a Tool in Poverty Reduction with Focus on Bangladesh and India

This Working Paper for the South Asia regional hub of the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative pr... more This Working Paper for the South Asia regional hub of the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative presents the case for using poultry, in very small units of 5-10 adult birds, as a means of alleviating the poverty of rural women in the region. Policies and procedures that affect the success of such initiatives are examined. The author draws on personal experience and an extensive literature review. The main focus of the paper is a review of what is known as the Bangladesh Model. Emphasising that this is not a static model, the author explains its evolution by Bangladesh's largest NGO, BRAC, working with the government department responsible for livestock services. The main feature of the model is that the supply of inputs and services are turned into income earning opportunities for poor people. The focus is on poverty reduction, rather than on increasing the supply of eggs and poultry meat. The main components are the involvement of NGOs that have access to groups of very poor wo...

Evolution of the Poultry Modela Pathway out of Poverty

… Fight Poverty with Poultry: Workshop held …, 2002

Page 1. 1 Evolution of the Poultry Model - a Pathway out of Poverty1 Frands Dolberg2, Edward Mall... more

Decision Tools for Family Poultry Development

by Robyn Alders, brigitte bagnol, Jenny Ifft, Emma Watkins, E. Fallou Guèye, Md Saleque, E. Guèye, P. Ankers, and Frands Dolberg

Decision Tools for Family Poultry Development, Apr 17, 2014

The Decision Tools address the situation of four distinct family poultry production systems and t... more The Decision Tools address the situation of four distinct family poultry production systems and their development opportunities: small extensive scavenging, extensive scavenging, semi-intensive production and small-scale intensive production. They describe the poultry production systems, including their required inputs and expected outputs and the techniques and tools used to assess the operational environment, in order to design interventions suited to the local conditions. Practical technical information are provided about genetics and reproduction, feeds and feeding, poultry health, housing, marketing and value chain development, microfinance and credit, institutional development, training and extension, and creating an enabling policy. Guidance is then provided on how to utilize this relevant information to design and develop projects targeted at specific conditions.

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