Technical efficiency of traditional village chicken production in Africa: Entry points for sustainable transformation and improved livelihood

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationColorado State Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationObafemi Awolowo Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationTanzania Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.creator.identifierMulugeta Yitayih Birhanu: 0000-0002-3146-8015en
cg.creator.identifierTadelle Dessie: 0000-0002-1630-0417en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su13158539en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2071-1050en
cg.issue15en
cg.journalSustainabilityen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriAGRICULTUREen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTIONen
cg.subject.ilriCHICKENSen
cg.subject.ilriLIVELIHOODSen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriPOULTRYen
cg.volume13en
dc.contributor.authorYitayih, Mulugetaen
dc.contributor.authorAlemayehu, T.en
dc.contributor.authorBruno, J.E.en
dc.contributor.authorKebede, F.G.en
dc.contributor.authorSonaiya, E.B.en
dc.contributor.authorGoromela, E.H.en
dc.contributor.authorBamidele, O.en
dc.contributor.authorDessie, Tadelleen
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-26T14:13:10Zen
dc.date.available2021-10-26T14:13:10Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/115702
dc.titleTechnical efficiency of traditional village chicken production in Africa: Entry points for sustainable transformation and improved livelihooden
dcterms.abstractIncreasing poultry product consumption trends have attracted researchers and development practitioners to look for interventions that transform the low-input low-output-based village chicken production to a high yielding production system. However, due to the intricate nature of the production system, there is a dearth of evidence that helps design comprehensive interventions at the smallholder level. Using national-level representative data collected from 3555 village chicken producers in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania, this study examines the technical efficiency of village chicken production and investigates the main factors that explain the level of inefficiency. We applied a stochastic frontier analysis to simultaneously quantify the level of technical efficiency and identify factors associated with heterogeneity in inefficiency. We found that the level of technical efficiency is extremely low in the three countries, suggesting enormous opportunities to enhance productivity using available resources. The heterogeneity in technical efficiency is strongly associated with producers’ experience in breed improvements and flock management, limited technical knowledge and skills, limited access to institutions and markets, smaller flock size, gender disparities, and household livelihood orientation. We argue the need to adopt an integrated approach to enhance village producers’ productivity and transform the traditional subsistence-based production system into a commercially oriented semi-intensive production system.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2021-07-30en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBirhanu, M.Y., Alemayehu, T., Bruno, J.E., Kebede, F.G., Sonaiya, E.B., Goromela, E.H., Bamidele, O. and Dessie, T. 2021. Technical efficiency of traditional village chicken production in Africa: Entry points for sustainable transformation and improved livelihood. Sustainability 13(15): 8539.en
dcterms.issued2021-07-30en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherMDPIen
dcterms.subjectproductivityen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectchickensen
dcterms.subjectintegrated managementen
dcterms.subjectagricultural researchen
dcterms.subjectanimal productionen
dcterms.subjectlivelihoodsen
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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