Poultry production in Burkina Faso: Potential for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment

Poultry rearing is widespread in rural Burkina Faso, and contributes to both the food security and cash income of smallholders farmers. The landlocked status of the country, coupled with increasing demand for poultry in urban areas implies an opportunity for significant, pro-poor growth through this...

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Autores principales: Hoffmann, Vivian, Awonon, Josue, Gelli, Aulo
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143489
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Awonon, Josue
Gelli, Aulo
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description Poultry rearing is widespread in rural Burkina Faso, and contributes to both the food security and cash income of smallholders farmers. The landlocked status of the country, coupled with increasing demand for poultry in urban areas implies an opportunity for significant, pro-poor growth through this sector. We use data from a survey of 1800 poultry producers to characterize smallholder poultry producers and their practices. We find that 88% of households in program areas raised poultry. While access to vaccination services and veterinary medicines at the village level is high, uptake of these services is limited, especially among smaller producers. Fewer women than men own poultry, but most women report that they control the proceeds from sales of their own birds, indicating the potential for development of the poultry sector to generate relatively equitable gains in terms of gender. Access to credit appears to increase women’s poultry ownership, but remains limited, as does women’s access to poultry output markets.
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spelling CGSpace1434892025-12-02T21:02:41Z Poultry production in Burkina Faso: Potential for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment Hoffmann, Vivian Awonon, Josue Gelli, Aulo poultry gender aviculture empowerment smallholders nutrition ownership poultry farming poverty animal production women Poultry rearing is widespread in rural Burkina Faso, and contributes to both the food security and cash income of smallholders farmers. The landlocked status of the country, coupled with increasing demand for poultry in urban areas implies an opportunity for significant, pro-poor growth through this sector. We use data from a survey of 1800 poultry producers to characterize smallholder poultry producers and their practices. We find that 88% of households in program areas raised poultry. While access to vaccination services and veterinary medicines at the village level is high, uptake of these services is limited, especially among smaller producers. Fewer women than men own poultry, but most women report that they control the proceeds from sales of their own birds, indicating the potential for development of the poultry sector to generate relatively equitable gains in terms of gender. Access to credit appears to increase women’s poultry ownership, but remains limited, as does women’s access to poultry output markets. 2020-01-01 2024-05-22T12:14:36Z 2024-05-22T12:14:36Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143489 en https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-2156-4 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hoffmann, Vivian; Awonon, Josue; and Gelli, Aulo. 2020. Poultry production in Burkina Faso: Potential for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1908. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133595.
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gender
aviculture
empowerment
smallholders
nutrition
ownership
poultry farming
poverty
animal production
women
Hoffmann, Vivian
Awonon, Josue
Gelli, Aulo
Poultry production in Burkina Faso: Potential for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment
title Poultry production in Burkina Faso: Potential for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment
title_full Poultry production in Burkina Faso: Potential for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment
title_fullStr Poultry production in Burkina Faso: Potential for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment
title_full_unstemmed Poultry production in Burkina Faso: Potential for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment
title_short Poultry production in Burkina Faso: Potential for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment
title_sort poultry production in burkina faso potential for poverty reduction and women s empowerment
topic poultry
gender
aviculture
empowerment
smallholders
nutrition
ownership
poultry farming
poverty
animal production
women
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143489
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