Raising poultry (hens and guinea fowl) is a common practice in the savannah region, formerly known as the "white gold" region. It is also the area par excellence of the roan tree and of harnessed farming, where communities live partly from the production and marketing of poultry to meet the basic needs of their families.
However, growing threats and pressure from armed terrorist groups have increased the vulnerability of people in the savannah region and had a significant impact on the activities and lives of producers, including livestock farmers. This situation has prompted the Government to take prompt measures to enable the people of this area to improve their resilience.
These measures include the establishment of the Emergency Programme to Strengthen Community Resilience and Security (PURS), under which the FSRP is implementing numerous activities to ensure sustainable food and nutritional security and strengthen the productivity system with a view to achieving effective resilience in rural households.
The FSRP produced and introduced into households a core of broodstock consisting of 2 roosters and 4 hens to serve 169 hen breeders, spread across the 7 prefectures of the Savanes region. A total of 1,290 broodstock, including 1,075 hens and 215 roosters, were distributed to breeders in the Savanes region.
This project aims to boost the productivity of livestock farmers by increasing the number of poultry, whose products (meat and eggs) are not only a source of animal protein needed to cover the food and nutritional requirements of households in general and children in particular, but also a source of permanent family income to meet other non-nutritional needs.
