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Stories of changes

Resilient poultry management for women in Kenya

Key messages

• Research shows that indigenous chicken are a strategic component of building resilience in semi-arid Kenya. Adaptive research is being conducted with a network of 270 primary and secondary farmer groups.
• Currently, 54 primary farmer groups (755 women and 498 men) are experimenting with 14 resilience enhancing technologies, in order to diversify their farming systems and transfer knowledge to more than 5,600 men and women farmers in 133 other secondary groups.
• Farmers have formed 18 marketing groups (716 men and 1,007 women) to negotiate better prices, up to 75% above the average price paid to individual farmers.