Rural poultry keeping and marketing offer one of the few opportunities that rural poor can join for enhancing household food security and income generating activities, especially if they lack access to land, training and capital.

Simple, affordable interventions based on good husbandry practices can have a substantial impact on productivity, primarily by reducing mortality and losses.

Promising poultry scientists working in the field of poultry development in developing countries were given international exposure and work experience on selected IFAD and FAO projects. Outputs from their assignments (training material, guidelines, checklists and decision support tools) have been used by IFAD and FAO and also the broader poultry development community: producer associations, NGOs, private sector and micro-finance organisations etc.