Backyard poultry farming with improved germplasm: Sustainable food production and nutritional security in fragile ecosystem

Approximately 3 billion people were unable to afford a healthy diet in 2019 because of poverty and inequality. Most these live Asia Africa. Furthermore, 30% the world population was affected by moderate severe food insecurity 2020, most this lives low- middle-income countries. The is at critical juncture, there an urgent need for transformative systems that ensure empowerment poor vulnerable groups, often smallholders with limited access resources or those living remote locations, as well women, children, youth (FAO, 2018 ). backyard poultry production system (BPPS), practiced 80% world's rural population, can be change Although BPPS has low productivity, it still plays important role nutritional security fragile ecosystems. Backyard been recognized tool alleviation women besides ensuring poor. Poultry meat eggs are cheapest best source good quality protein, minerals, vitamins. introduction improved germplasm productivity resource-poor settings thereby income households. With birds, availability, access, utilization, stability have household national levels. Diseases, predation, non-availability germplasm, lack markets, skills major constraints adoption poultry. These addressed involving network community animal service providers. will dominate future on sustainable basis, more particularly