The Resilience Strategies of Smallholders’ Poultry Actors

Abstract

Smallholder poultry actors play key roles in increasing food security and contribute significantly to the economy of both developed and developing countries. Despite their roles, they are a vulnerable group and mostly neglected by developmental programmes. As well, they account for most of the world’s poor and hungry. Nevertheless, they continually strive to keep their activities directly as livelihood and indirectly as contributors to the society. They are challenged with; high cost of investment compare to slim margin on returns per unit, poor infrastructure; bad road network and public power supply, poor linkages to information, inputs, market, funding facilities and logistics for both input and output delivery, etc. Diversification into value addition, direct marketing of products using trust factors, investment in alternative power generation through cooperative society and community efforts in rural road development are observable resilience strategies used by these actors.