Kenya Activity Empowers Women through Training & Asset Transfer
In Northern Kenya men traditionally manage their families’ livestock assets as producers, traders, and protectors against rustlers. Women, on the …
Ghana Poultry Project Partners with Private Firms to Expand Markets for Local Chicken
Amazingly, chicken that travels to Ghana from all over the world is still cheaper than locally produced chicken, due to …
Rehabilitated Grazing Land Improves Livestock Health & Farmer Incomes in Ethiopia
In the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia, households that live near communal grazing areas allow their animals to graze freely …
Ghana Poultry Project Grant Supports Domestic Chicken Production
In Ghana, high production costs hinder the production of chicken, the country’s most popular meat. Augustine Amankwa, a poultry entrepreneur and CEO …
Women Increase Incomes & Forge Equitable Future in Ethiopia Through Cooperatives
In the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia, the Feed Enhancement for Ethiopian Development (FEED) II project, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and implemented by ACDI/VOCA, supported a …
AV Ventures Investments Catalyze Ghana Poultry Industry
AV Ventures is pleased to announce two new investments in Ghana: G. I. Nyame Aye Awie Ampa Limited (GINAAAL) and Golden Link Savings and Loans Limited. AV Ventures, a subsidiary …
Boosting Women’s Entrepreneurship in Ghana
Women make up 70 percent of Ghana’s poultry labor force, yet only 7 percent own their own poultry farms. Edith Wheatland, 41, overcame the …
Cassava Farmers Join in Red Stripe Beer’s Jamaican Pride & Profits
Charmaine Blair-Stewart has been managing her 11.5-acre farm in the St. Thomas Parish of Jamaica since her husband died suddenly …
Engaging Jamaican Youth in Agriculture through Farming as a Business
Oliver Creightney, 29, arrived at a church in Morant Bay in Jamaica’s St. Thomas Parish to mark his graduation from …
