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Sustainable smallholder poultry interventions to promote food security and social, agricultural, and ecological resilience in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia
Food Security ( IF 6.7 ) Pub Date : 2016-06-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s12571-016-0579-5
Sarah E Dumas 1 , Luke Lungu 2 , Nathan Mulambya 2 , Whiteson Daka 2 , Erin McDonald 3 , Emily Steubing 3 , Tamika Lewis 3 , Katherine Backel 3 , Jarra Jange 4 , Benjamin Lucio-Martinez 4 , Dale Lewis 2 , Alexander J Travis 1
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In Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, highly variable rainfall and lack of education, agricultural inputs, and market access constrain agricultural productivity, trapping smallholder farmers in chronic poverty and food insecurity. Human and animal disease (e.g. HIV and Newcastle Disease, respectively), further threaten the resilience of poor families. To cope with various shocks and stressors, many farmers employ short-term coping strategies that threaten ecosystem resilience. Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) utilizes an agribusiness model to alleviate poverty and food insecurity through conservation farming, market development and value-added food production. COMACO promotes household, agricultural and ecological resilience along two strategic lines: improving recovery from shocks (mitigation) and reducing the risk of shock occurrence. Here we focus on two of COMACO’s poultry interventions and present data showing that addressing health and management constraints within the existing village poultry system resulted in significantly improved productivity and profitability. However, once reliable productivity was achieved, farmers preferred to sell chickens rather than eat either the birds or their eggs. Sales of live birds were largely outside the community to avoid price suppression; in contrast, the sale of eggs from community-operated, semi-intensive egg production facilities was invariably within the communities. These facilities resulted in significant increases in both producer income and community consumption of eggs. This intervention therefore has the potential to improve not only producers’ economic resilience, but also resilience tied to the food security and physical health of the entire community.

中文翻译:

可持续的小农家禽干预措施,以促进赞比亚卢安瓜河谷的粮食安全和社会、农业和生态复原力

在赞比亚的卢安瓜河谷,降雨量多变,缺乏教育、农业投入和市场准入限制了农业生产力,使小农陷入长期贫困和粮食不安全的境地。人类和动物疾病(例如分别为 HIV 和新城疫)进一步威胁着贫困家庭的复原力。为了应对各种冲击和压力,许多农民采用了威胁生态系统复原力的短期应对策略。Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) 利用农业综合企业模式,通过保护性农业、市场开发和增值食品生产来减轻贫困和粮食不安全。COMACO 沿着两条战略路线促进家庭、农业和生态复原力:改善冲击恢复(缓解)和降低冲击发生的风险。在这里,我们重点关注 COMACO 的两项家禽干预措施,并提供数据表明,解决现有乡村家禽系统内的健康和管理限制可显着提高生产力和盈利能力。然而,一旦实现了可靠的生产力,农民宁愿卖鸡而不是吃鸟或鸡蛋。活禽的销售主要在社区外进行,以避免压价;相比之下,来自社区经营的半集约化鸡蛋生产设施的鸡蛋销售总是在社区内进行。这些设施显着增加了生产者收入和社区鸡蛋消费量。因此,这种干预不仅有可能提高生产者的经济弹性,
更新日期:2016-06-01
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