Improving productivity and availability of poultry meat and eggs in Zambia.

2023 – 2024

The Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative – Livestock (AIDI-L) is a private sector-led, women and youth focused, livestock-based intervention that is improving food and nutrition security and rural incomes through poultry in Zambia. AIDI is improving productivity and availability of poultry meat and eggs in markets and for households in Zambia by promoting increased access to improved breeds, bundled advisory services, livestock financing, vaccinations, and new poultry farm technologies. This $2 million initiative, funded by the United States Agency for International Development, builds on years of partnership between Venture37 and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), a CGIAR research center that is dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources and ecosystem services. By 2024, the initiative will help 15,000 small-scale, poultry-keeping households acquire increased access dual-purpose backyard village chicks; empower 80 commercial poultry farmers with supplies and capacity development; support 150 women and youth brooders and vendors with increased business orientation and profitability; and reach 375,000 youth and women with agricultural advisory messages through mass media.