Sustainable Poultry
Sustainable poultry production involves alternative production methods that are environmentally friendly and address consumer concerns. Consumers are interested in poultry products such as high welfare, free-range, organic, high omega, and others. Native and heritage breeds are more adapted to free-range production than conventional fast-growing breeds and using them in organic production systems is a way to preserve them. Production systems that integrated poultry with other livestock and vegetable production are especially important in developing countries. I believe we need sessions at Slow Food Nation (USA) and Terra Madre specific to poultry to assist researchers, producers, chefs and others in networking. The nonprofit organization, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, has programs in sustainable agriculture (http://www.attra.ncat.org) and maintains a website on poultry (http://www.sustainablepoultry.ncat.org). Please send me any ideas for the poultry website, photos, and networking for the future. Thanks, Anne Fanatico annef@ncat.org 479-442-9824
Anne Fanatico
Poultry Program Specialist
National Center for Appropriate Technology
P.O. Box 3657
Fayetteville, AR 72702
479-442-9824
479-442-9842 fax
annef@ncat.org
http://www.attra.ncat.org
http://www.sustainablepoultry.ncat.org
Terra Madre delegate, 14:41:PM | University - Research | Comment (1)
You could make attra.com more user friendly
but it is very usful and has lots of info.
we raise chickens in a sustainable way
realfoodfarm, 04:40 PM - 15 August 07Our URL is http://www.realfoodfarm.com