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Dr. Stephen Adejoro

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Organization: Livestock Industry Foundation For Africa
Country: Nigeria
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I am working on:

The problem of post hatchery vaccination failures to mareks on the field

Iam also working on publising my fith and sith books on poultry management in the tropical climate

My new books will focus on management of Gumboro diseases in the tropics and also a book on principles of broiler management in the tropics

The books shall be posted on the alibaba web site with the previous one aurthored by Dr Stephen Adejoro

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    • Dear Sir/Ma, 

      Attached Livestock Industry Foundation case study on the Risk Assessment of Avian Influenza Epidemics and Vulnerabilities on Poultry Food Security, Economic Indexes and Livability of the Nigerian Population.
       
      Thanks
       

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      Mr. Lawal
      Operation Manager,
      Livestock Industry Foundation for Africa
      See the attachments:

    • Most capacity development organized for youths in Africa have limited exposures to practical intervention, and field exposures to case studies,or learning routes to acquire on training contacts with practical challanges

      The first huddle to break is for  youths to show keen interest in practicing animal or crop farming as a sustainable livelihood,also at the same time societal perspective and image of a youth engaged in farming need to change,because positive image and perception of the society on any profession is a booster to the professional or enterpreuneral ego to embrace such jobs as ways of living

      In most Africa society agriculture is perceived as a second class jobs to white collar jobs which makes most youths to want to prefer them than getting engaged in practical agriculture

      How can we create more interest in our youths to embrace agriculture a as a way of life and business.?and how will the society change her notion and perception of a youth farmer?

      In Africa one of the symbol of societal respect and recognition is in the value that your profession have earned you in the face ofvthe society.This value in our society is determined by the affluence of wealth that such profession may present to the society and the community where the youths are engaged in their vocation

      How may CD initiatives help to add value to a youth farmer post his training.?most CD initiatives are theoretically biased,with little exposures to practical aspects of the farming operations and familiarity with on the training risks identification and management.Most trainings are organised by privatevconsultants or NGO,which are only slated for few days quite inadequate to cover the operational procedures of such farming enterprises 

      I did made suggestion in my contribution onvthevtopic Youths Feeding the Future,that an holistic CD for youths in agriculture must integrate practical training or mentorship,and this can be achieved through meaningful collaboration with existing integrated agricultural enterprises to accept to mentor our youths on short time attachments for practical exposureswhile Government or NGO anchoring such CD should place the youths on stipend allowances during the short period of attachments

      Some tears back in Nigeria way back in the sixties,the Government of the .west and .Eastern Nigeria established the farm settlement strategic all designed to motivate youths into practical farming with convenience and ego,because the youths are settled in farm communities with decent accommodation and regular availability of farm inputs and social amenities

      Such youths were assigned farm land and ..Animal stock of choice and housing facilities to raise them in the farm settlements 

      This initiative go on with on the farm training and visit by extension officers This program me recorded great success and dignity to participants as their products have access to regular market that ensure their wealth creation that boost their public image

      The positive out one of the initiative was the emergence of the first tier of successful livestock and especially poultry farmers in the south and Eastern parts of Nigeria,

      However the major constraint that faced this laudable programme was instability in government and government policy such that the program me was not sustainable in most centres ,anothe critical challanges that plagued the initiative was lack is sustainable marked that lacked value addition that could attract more revenue to the participating youths

      Recent development by some emerging learning routes NOT  tends to blend theory with practice,by moving participants along learning routes to see,hear and participate in agricultural proj2and challanges along the routes,a good example of such initiative is PROCASUR learning routes in South East ,..West and Central Africa.This initiative is highly commendable,and could serve as a .Train Of Trainers TOT for partivipating NGO,who in turn could group local participants in their regions

      Universities in Africa have roles to playing CD interventions for youths in their regions,as such youths could be mobilized to use university research farm for training while students are on holidays

      Our NGO Livestock infustry Foundation For Africa here in Nigeria,be live that youths can be mentored through exposure to knowledge capitalised field trials and case stufies that are held in lien by the  NGO.These resources by lifango www.lifango.org could be electronically accessed  to educate poultry farmers in management of critical chalkanges to their poultry projects

      Cooperative association bybyouths after CD interventions to practice livestovk mixed portfolio suvh as Cattle fattening with egg production,or pig fattening with egg production ,and even fish fattening with egg production have evolved from lifango as viable portfolio that can fastlytransitba youth from poverty to posterity. 

      A comprehensive ten chapter book authored by the founder of LIFA Dr .Stephen Adejoro has Been adopted for publication Lambert publishers of .Germany and translated into many languages 

      The book is currently been marketed by Lambert and hopevtobuse accrued royalty to fund further activities of Lifango

      In conclusion Funtiobal CD must be balanced theoretically and practically and must include a follow up to assist participants to have access to one digit loan able fund as well as creating collaboration with integrated agriculturalvgoing concerns and universities to practically mentor the youths before they move ahead to practice their choice of agriculture 

      Dr ..Stephen Adejoro is the founder of Livest6 Industry Foundation For Africa  and a contract Head of Research to Zartech Limited Nigeria

       

       

    • Dear Moderator

      Thank you again for exploring this societal challenges after the recent discussion on farming system and nutrition, and now, to address this topic and the relevance of youth in the age bracket of 15-17. We need to have a global view of their situation analysis, in respect of availability of jobs, good education and their contribution to any national, regional or global productivity especially in their capacity in feeding the future.

      The background study presented by the organizers adequately focused on the challenges facing this segment of youths in the world and most especially in the rural set up of the developing countries; we have seen from the report, that youths of ages 10 to 24 years constitute about 30% of the world population of 6 billion of which 47 millon in this age bracket  are engaged in hazardous jobs or child labour jobs.

      It is worthwhile for us to note that the various challenges well identified in this document constitute the aetiology of the present scenario of most African youths of this age bracket (15-17) mostly pre-punderance in Africa rural set up, where most of Africa farming population and natural resources like crude oil, minerals, livestock and cash crop are mostly found, and this set of youths can be characterized as:

      ·       Restless, mostly vulnerable  to poverty and insurgency.

      ·       High level of joblessness and truancy for lack of financial support in their education.

      ·       Easily recruitable to cause insurgencies (like Boko Haram) and found involved in cattle theft or as armed robbers and nuisance in most local areas of Africa.

      We need to also project the future population of these youths by the year 2050, when the world population will show a further increase of 3 billion with a heavy decline in the present farming population. By this year, additional youth of this age bracket may constitute almost 1 billion.

      Who will produce global food of plant and animal origin for human consumption? and what will be the assessment of the Africa food security by the year 2050? if we do not immediately target this youth segment and decode them of their present perspective and orientation.

      I believe that every African state must evolve a National youth policy to encourage youth in agriculture of both plants and animal for food profitability and gainful employment.

      These Government policies must address reformation, re-orientation, training, mentorship, soft loan provision, land allocation and classification of youths to preferred agricultural sectors.

      I believe Government Public-private partnership is required to make the new agenda a success.

      What I mean here, is that it will be unproductive to train this youths and send them directly to the farming system of their choices without attaching them to mentors, and this is where my views about the public-private involvement in the programme calls for attention.

      In Nigeria today, where we have some of the challenges of youth like restlessness and unemployment, and where the Government is initiating a return to land to curb Boko Haram and other insurgencies such as the cattle rearers and arable farmers imbroglio, we need the co-operation of many private agricultural initiatives that are still very sustainable in Nigeria and other African countries to mentor these youths selected by government to return to sustainable farming of plant and animal food.

      While Government identifies such successful agricultural enterprises they must be co-opted to allocate  government land to these youths under the coverage of their organization as mentors.

      The organization may be motivated by government to retain the allottees and provide technical support for their project to succeed.

      Besides, the youths may grow crops that could be bought back by such organization to complement their annual stock requirement thereby providing regular income and market platform for their end products.

      I also believe that the many Government parastatals currently holding idle lands can accommodate these youths and provide them with extension services and technical ideas, these youths can be engaged in horticulture, animal husbandry, poultry and many valuable agricultural ventures. For example, it is very obvious that cattle fattening as a farming enterprise is profitable and viable when raised on small plots of land intensively fed and restricted from roaming in many regions of Nigeria. A survey recently conducted by this author showed that a 20 herd of cattle weighing average market weight of 150kg can be achieved within 6-8months fattening of the heifer or poorly fed cattle bought from pastorialists.  The Northern region of most south western states and other states in th south of Nigeria can economically practice this ranching system as a style of life for many youths of this region. Our studies show that a return on investment of 35-40% is achievable in 8 months. This kind of farming system is highly recommended in Oke-Ogun region of the Oyo State, Yewa region of Ogun state, Ila region of Osun state, Ikole region of Ekiti state as well as the Akoko region of Ondo state all in south western Nigeria.

      Similar venture can be recommended in all eastern and south south states of Nigeria. This can also be established in the river basins of the northern part of Nigeria with encouragement of grass plantation to restrict roaming tendency of patorialists.

      The success of Youth feeding the future, will primarily depend on market accessibility and introduction of value chain to diversify product marketing and possibly generate foreign exchange to Developing countries with declining foreign reserve.

      While I believe that this idea is laudable it must be widely debated with concrete strategic output as recommendation to the vulnerable developing countries of the world.

      Dr. Stephen Adejoro is currently the Head of Marketing of Research and Marketing of Zartech Limited and a co-founder of AFRICA LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY SUSTAINABILITY

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       Dear colleagues,

      Social protection for food security is a social norm well recognised and practiced by the Yoruba people of the South West of Nigeria in the West Africa sub region.

      The practice is aimed at protecting the negative impacts of  agricultural production logistics on the poor, the weak and members of the communities who have limited hands that could be engaged in land preparation for food cultivation

      Association of age grade are formed to assist members of the community in preparing their farm land, planting, harrowing and harvesting such that an individual could farm sizable land and nurture to harvesting thus helping a vulnerable member of the family to sustain the family food security and have products for sale or exchange to meet the social and food need of respective members

      In Yoruba culture,we refer to these system of social protection as Aroje, (cooperative farm support) Isusu or cooperative banking to raise capital base for the members

      Livestock such as Hen, Goat and Sheep can be given out to the less privileged to raise such that the less privileged family can have access to more nutritive food like milk or egg but at the same time pay a regular of an offspring of the type of animal loaned to the principal annually.

      Honestly this is my traditional understanding of social protection at the grass root level in my part of West Africa that had helped our fore fathers to sustain the needed food security

      It is possible for society to reparkage this traditional system and restructure it into agricultural imput services that will support the resilience and the vulnerable farming members of the society in sustaining a healthy food security

      Thank you for giving me the opportunity to make a simple contribution to this first edition of the Global Forum for food Security in West Africa and hope you will find my first letter to the coordinator on the inauguration of this forum a useful discussion  for the region.

      Dr Adejoro

      Independent livestock consultant and contract Head of Research for Zartech Limited in Nigeria 

      Chers collègues,

      La protection sociale pour la sécurité alimentaire est une norme sociale reconnue et pratiquée par le peuple Yoruba du sud-ouest du Nigeria dans la région Ouest africaine.

      Cette pratique vise à protéger les membres de la communauté les plus pauvres et vulnérables ne possédant pas la main d'oeuvre nécessaire pour gérer la logistique de la production agricole.

      Des groupes de différentes catégories d'âge sont formés pour aider les membres de la communauté dans la préparation de leurs terres agricoles, la plantation , le hersage et la récolte. Ainsi, un individu peut cultiver une terre de taille suffisante pour garantir la sécurité alimentaire d'un foyer et avoir des produits à vendre ou à échanger pour garantir les besoins alimentaires et sociaux des membres de la communauté.  Dans la culture Yoruba , nous appelons ces systèmes de protection sociale "Aroje" (soutien agricole coopératif) "Isusu" ou encore "banque coopérative" pour accroitre le capital de base des membres de la communauté.

      Du bétail comme des poules, chèvres et brebis peuvent être remis en élevage à une personne moins privilégiée et le foyer peut ainsi bénéficier d'un accès à une nourriture plus nutritive comme le lait ou les œufs. En même temps ce foyer donne pour chaque animal donné, sa descendance directe, à la famille propriétaire.

      Ce système, qui a aidé nos ancêtres à atteindre la sécurité alimentaire, est ma compréhension traditionnelle de la protection sociale au niveau local dans ma région d'Afrique occidentale.

      Il est possible pour la société de tirer les leçons de ce système traditionnel et de le restructurer dans des services d'intrants agricoles qui pourront soutenir la résilience et le maintien d'une sécurité alimentaire durable des ménages ruraux vulnérables.

      Je vous remercie de m'avoir donné l'occasion de faire cette simple contribution à cette première édition du Forum FSN en Afrique de l'Ouest. J'espère que vous  trouverez ma première contribution utile pour la région

      Dr Adejoro

      Consultant indépendant en élevage actuellement responsable de recherche pour Zartech Limited au Nigeria