I have a strong interest in global development and is currently up-skilling in global economics/business admin. I spend my spare time doing EA community building and animal advocacy. I currently organise EA KNUST and lead a volunteer-run org called Animal Welfare League. I love art and watching art documentaries.
University group organization tools, EA fellowship, Biosecurity research and Events organization.
Animal advocacy in Africa, Biosecurity research in Africa, Event planning and EA events in Africa
Thanks Fai. I would say most groups are starting to build a track record for cage-free work as a result a decent amount of the conversations and work is focused on that. I would suspect cage broiler is on their radar.
In Ghana, it is pretty much on our radar and not a major concern (in terms of number of hens) at the moment. I can say with 90% confidence cage broiler should it exist is less than 1% of the country’s chicken production drawing from the fact that Ghana imports about 80-95% of chicken consumed and local broiler production is still majorly seasonal.
PS: Ghana1 opens to a story about cage broiler production in Zimbabwe not Ghana.
Thanks for this information Jamie. Could you elaborate more on the regranting opportunities. A few advocates and myself are becoming more convinced a regranting program for farm animal welfare research in Africa is crucial for the growth of the effective animal advocacy in Africa (currently sparse and ~ less than 5 reports/papers are published annually). We have a few ideas about how to go about this but will be open to discussing it with a grantmaker.
Always inspiring learning about your transparency.
Do you think your evaluation model (when fully developed) could be used by us [Animal Welfare League] to evaluate our volunteer program. Three of our volunteers have now been accepted into your training program and others ( university students) are starting university clubs?
Go AWL!!!