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Dear Participants,
It is now time to turn our attention to the themes of week 3 which are:
1. Women empowerment through sustainable family poultry development.
· Can development of family poultry make an important contribution to women’s empowerment?
· What are the requirements and constraints for contribution of family poultry to women empowerment?
· Can family poultry development have negative impacts for women, for example by increasing their workload?
· Have past projects proved a positive impact of family poultry development on women’s empowerment?
· While promoting family poultry what should be done to avoid discrimination based on gender, caste, and class?
2. Influencing policy for family poultry.
· What should be the purpose of family poultry policies?
· Is policy changing a prerequisite to steer family poultry development towards meeting the needs of the poor?
· What can policies do to support family poultry?
· How much importance has been given to family poultry in the current poultry development policies and what needs to be done to influence that?
· Have family poultry development projects influenced policy, if so, why and how?
· Have needs and priorities of the commercial poultry industry negative impacts on the policies for family poultry?
· What arguments and facts are required to achieve pro family poultry policies?
· Who are the stakeholders that should work for smallholder friendly poultry policies?
· What can international organizations and institutions do to achieve FP friendly policies?
· Is there a role of local Governments in promoting family poultry?
3. The future contribution of INFPD and other networks to family poultry development.
· What has been achieved by INFPD? What has worked and what not?
· What should be the future priorities of INFPD?
· What actions could INFPD take to further contribute to policy change?
· What actions could INFPD take to further contribute to improving technical knowledge?
· Should INFPD collaborate more actively with other institutions or networks?
The official closing date of the e-conference is scheduled for Friday, 15 June 2012. Since this is the last week of the e-conference, we invite all colleagues who have not yet had the opportunity to address the topics of week 1 and 2 to send their contributions now.
Best regards,
Professor Dr. E. B. Sonaiya and Mr. G. De’ Besi
Moderators
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