4+ hour, 38+ min ago   (449+ words) The 24-Hour Economy Secretariat says Absa, Fidelity and Ecobank will fund a poultry rebuild as Ghana imports 95 per cent of the chicken it consumes. Ghana's poultry farmers will draw on more than GH¢1 billion in fresh credit under a financing…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (424+ words) Ghana has signed a $270m poultry programme with UK and local capital, targeting 12,000 direct jobs and a cut in the $400m yearly chicken import bill. Ghana spends about $400 million a year importing the chicken its own farms could raise, and on Monday…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (283+ words) Vendors in Kenyan informal settlements are revolutionizing protein access by selling chicken in highly affordable KES 30 micro-portions. Vendors in Kenya's bustling informal settlements are rapidly transforming urban diets by unbundling whole chickens into bite-sized portions sold for as little as…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (398+ words) Ghana's $300 million poultry initiative faces intense scrutiny after NPP officials alleged the government distributed birds solely to political allies. A flagship agricultural initiative designed to curb Ghana's KES 39.3 billion ($300 million) annual poultry import bill has become the center of a…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (479+ words) The Poultry Farmers Association of Kenya has urged the government to protect local producers from the growing dominance of Chinese-owned industrial farms. The unfolding crisis highlights the friction between Kenya’s push for foreign direct investment and the survival of its…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (275+ words) Oxford University research reveals organic free-range eggs produce 2.31 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in the UK, doubling the emissions of highly efficient caged hen systems. A landmark environmental study has shattered consumer assumptions about sustainable agriculture, revealing that organic free-range egg…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (280+ words) A sweeping genomic analysis reveals that global commercial chicken production has triggered a 100-fold increase in the transmission of the dangerous Campylobacter bacteria. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the study was spearheaded by researchers…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (357+ words) An Oxford University genomic study reveals that intensive poultry farming has triggered a 100-fold increase in the transmission of a severe foodborne pathogen. To understand the evolutionary dynamics of the pathogen, the Oxford research team analyzed 2,747 whole-genome sequences of C. jejuni…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (273+ words) A fierce battle over the future of the United Kingdom's waterways is unfolding within the corridors of Westminster, as environmentalists accuse government ministers of systematically capitulating to corporate agricultural lobbyists to deregulate the highly polluting industrial poultry sector. The environmental…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (167+ words) streamlinefeed.co.ke The journey from a pandemic-era hustle to a multimillion-shilling enterprise required navigating severe macroeconomic headwinds. The East African poultry sector remains highly sensitive to global commodity fluctuations, particularly the cost of feed, which accounts for up to…...