The Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLI) – Avian Influenza in Southeast Asia.

Funded by the UK’s DFID, the PPLI was launched in 2001 by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in order to “facilitate and support the formulation and implementation of livestock-related policies and institutional changes that have a positive impact on the world’s poor”. Their website provides a valuable livelihoods perspective to the issue of AI in Southeast Asia and offers some great visual data for AI and poultry production in Vietnam. Additionally, the document “HPAI Control Measures in Household Incomes in Vietnam” (attached and found on the web page) focuses upon the need for local participation in the design of surveillance, control and traceability schemes. The authors highlight the need to include the rural poor in risk reduction strategies and stress the importance for national policies to address local conditions and local incentives.

http://www.fao.org/ag/AGAInfo/projects/en/pplpi/hpai.html

Also, click on “chicken economics” (to the left of the webpage) for a great little animation that simply describes the place of poultry production within the household economy.


Source: The Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLI): http://www.fao.org/ag/AGAInfo/projects/en/pplpi/hpai.html