Overview of Poultry Management as a Key Factor for Solving Food and Nutritional Security with a Special Focus on Chicken Breeding in East African Countries
The focus of this review is to offer an overview of food and nutritional security, to identify associated constraints, and propose possible alternative solutions for improving the East African poultry sub-sector in the pursuit of food security, focusing on chicken breeding. To better understand the...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
MDPI AG
2021-08-01
|
| Series: | Biology |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/10/8/810 |
| _version_ | 1797524664039243776 |
|---|---|
| author | Lenox Omondi Pius Péter Strausz Szilvia Kusza |
| author_facet | Lenox Omondi Pius Péter Strausz Szilvia Kusza |
| author_sort | Lenox Omondi Pius |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The focus of this review is to offer an overview of food and nutritional security, to identify associated constraints, and propose possible alternative solutions for improving the East African poultry sub-sector in the pursuit of food security, focusing on chicken breeding. To better understand the prospects of the poultry industry, we highlighted and combined confirming evidence of the phenotypic variability and genetic diversity of East African chicken genetic resources using both morphological and molecular tools, as well as performance traits. Furthermore, this work gives a detailed indication of what would be lost if indigenous chicken populations are left to suffer the ongoing massive genetic erosions due to various factors, not limited to indiscriminate crossbreeding. Previous and recent attempts to improve the productivity of indigenous chicken are highlighted, and possible future breeding plans and areas of immediate research are suggested as well. This review concludes that under the prevailing conditions, the village chicken production system appears to be the most imperious production system that needs to be extensively developed ; however, for the sustainability of the industry, the proposed improvement strategies should create a permanent balance between the competing needs of genetic improvement and the genetic diversity of the indigenous chicken genetic resource. |
| first_indexed | 2024-03-10T09:00:42Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-b78fd24fad30492ab467a306c63ba898 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2079-7737 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-10T09:00:42Z |
| publishDate | 2021-08-01 |
| publisher | MDPI AG |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Biology |
| spelling | doaj.art-b78fd24fad30492ab467a306c63ba8982023-11-22T06:50:50ZengMDPI AGBiology2079-77372021-08-0110881010.3390/biology10080810Overview of Poultry Management as a Key Factor for Solving Food and Nutritional Security with a Special Focus on Chicken Breeding in East African CountriesLenox Omondi Pius0Péter Strausz1Szilvia Kusza2Animal Breeding and Genetics Resource Section, Tanzania Livestock Research Institute (TALIRI), P.O. Box 834, Dodoma 41207, TanzaniaDepartment of Management and Organization, Institute of Management, Corvinus University of Budapest, 1093 Budapest, HungaryCentre for Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, HungaryThe focus of this review is to offer an overview of food and nutritional security, to identify associated constraints, and propose possible alternative solutions for improving the East African poultry sub-sector in the pursuit of food security, focusing on chicken breeding. To better understand the prospects of the poultry industry, we highlighted and combined confirming evidence of the phenotypic variability and genetic diversity of East African chicken genetic resources using both morphological and molecular tools, as well as performance traits. Furthermore, this work gives a detailed indication of what would be lost if indigenous chicken populations are left to suffer the ongoing massive genetic erosions due to various factors, not limited to indiscriminate crossbreeding. Previous and recent attempts to improve the productivity of indigenous chicken are highlighted, and possible future breeding plans and areas of immediate research are suggested as well. This review concludes that under the prevailing conditions, the village chicken production system appears to be the most imperious production system that needs to be extensively developed ; however, for the sustainability of the industry, the proposed improvement strategies should create a permanent balance between the competing needs of genetic improvement and the genetic diversity of the indigenous chicken genetic resource.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/10/8/810challengesEast Africafood and nutritional securitygenetic improvementindigenous chickenproduction system |
| spellingShingle | Lenox Omondi Pius Péter Strausz Szilvia Kusza Overview of Poultry Management as a Key Factor for Solving Food and Nutritional Security with a Special Focus on Chicken Breeding in East African Countries Biology challenges East Africa food and nutritional security genetic improvement indigenous chicken production system |
| title | Overview of Poultry Management as a Key Factor for Solving Food and Nutritional Security with a Special Focus on Chicken Breeding in East African Countries |
| title_full | Overview of Poultry Management as a Key Factor for Solving Food and Nutritional Security with a Special Focus on Chicken Breeding in East African Countries |
| title_fullStr | Overview of Poultry Management as a Key Factor for Solving Food and Nutritional Security with a Special Focus on Chicken Breeding in East African Countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Overview of Poultry Management as a Key Factor for Solving Food and Nutritional Security with a Special Focus on Chicken Breeding in East African Countries |
| title_short | Overview of Poultry Management as a Key Factor for Solving Food and Nutritional Security with a Special Focus on Chicken Breeding in East African Countries |
| title_sort | overview of poultry management as a key factor for solving food and nutritional security with a special focus on chicken breeding in east african countries |
| topic | challenges East Africa food and nutritional security genetic improvement indigenous chicken production system |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/10/8/810 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT lenoxomondipius overviewofpoultrymanagementasakeyfactorforsolvingfoodandnutritionalsecuritywithaspecialfocusonchickenbreedingineastafricancountries AT peterstrausz overviewofpoultrymanagementasakeyfactorforsolvingfoodandnutritionalsecuritywithaspecialfocusonchickenbreedingineastafricancountries AT szilviakusza overviewofpoultrymanagementasakeyfactorforsolvingfoodandnutritionalsecuritywithaspecialfocusonchickenbreedingineastafricancountries |