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Abstract
Family poultry rearing has been practiced for many years in developing countries, since it has been proven as an appropriate tool to supply high-quality protein to fast growing population, providing extra income to poor farmers, especially women. This study was conducted at SLOPB project areas of Patuakhali, a coastal district of Bangladesh to observe the effect of family poultry on poverty alleviation, equality of gender promotion and food security at household level. A total of 583 women beneficiaries of 28 village organizations (VO) were given training and technical support on improved poultry management system, after baseline survey on their socioeconomic status, to uphold their opportunity, to earning and hence reducing poverty, food and nutritional security status at household as well as social status. It was observed that, both in VO and individual level, their income became significantly increased and hence better food and nutritional security in their household, and the women were self-employed, empowered, and more esteemed to their family members as well as society than ever before.
Highlights
Lowering poverty and malnutrition cannot be achieved by one single intervention
Poultry rearing has been practiced for many years in developing countries, since it has been proven as an appropriate tool to supply high-quality protein to fast growing population, providing extra income to poor farmers, especially women
This study was conducted at SLOPB project areas of Patuakhali, a coastal district of Bangladesh to observe the effect of family poultry on poverty alleviation, equality of gender promotion and food security at household level
Summary
Lowering poverty and malnutrition cannot be achieved by one single intervention. livestock, especially poultry species, have seen to provide an effective first step (Mack, Hoffmann, & Otte, 2005). Bangladesh, where about 89% of the rural households keep poultry (Fattah, 2000), contributes 7% of the total meat, and 27% animal protein of the country (Hai, Mahiuddin, Howlider & Yeasmin, 2008), is a good example of how poultry can have an impact on the empowerment of the poorest women and on poverty reduction (Nielsen, 1998) This concept developed in Bangladesh is currently in an adaptation process to conditions in Malawi (Jensen, 2001; Gondwe, 2001) and Southern Africa (Mack, Hoffmann, & Otte, 2005). The technological changes of crop and animal farming must be based on socio-economic condition of low income food deficit countries (Sonaiya, 2000), and, only low cost technology is needed to improve production considerably (Upton, 2004)
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