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| Date: | Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:35:51 +0530 |
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Dear Coordinators and participants,
I would like to appreciate some of the interventions mentioned for Burkina Faso- with bio/ quality assays for poultry products is interesting. I would like also like to share some loud thinking against the following topics:
· How would we define sustainable development of FP?
Due to the little inputs and efforts required, poultry keeping has been a very resilient activity. It is noted that in some war-torn places, poultry surfaces first as a supportive activity. However, sustainability of the activity in FP would be very difficult to define as it is dynamic- in the sense that families who have accrued good amount of benefit by keeping poultry would like to graduate over to more profitable (like broiler farming), albeit risky businesses but then these families have crossed over the extreme poverty stage and can afford major interventions.
When we talk of FP (limiting to subsidiary income generation and family nutrition) then sustainability may mean continuing to keep 5-20 birds at any given time; deriving nutrition for home consumption on a regular basis and occasionally trading-off few birds to meet contingencies??
When we talk of progressive FP with marketing models and too many organized interventions for increasing value of products, sustainability is regarding enriching resource base but then we are going beyond the basic objective of bringing out the poorest-of-the-poor from abject poverty.
Well, as far as the FAO definition stands, FP fits the bill as environmentally sustainable:
"The management and conservation of the natural resource base, and the orientation of technological and institutional change in such a manner as to ensure the attainment of continued satisfaction of human needs for present and future generations. Such sustainable development conserves (land,) water, plants and (animal) genetic resources, is environmentally non-degrading, technologically appropriate, economically viable and socially acceptable".
· Family poultry is often part of integrated farming systems. Should development activities focus on improving family poultry alone or on the system as a whole?
FP is a supplementary activity and sole dependency will require atleast small scale farming- requiring more inputs, labour and a strong forward linkage. However having said that I eat my own words as we have a separate scheme exclusively for FP which though does not forbid other farming to be taken up as it is for landless, marginal farmers but it is a separate program nonetheless.
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> Sujit Nayak
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