AI.COMM - Avian and Pandemic Influenza Resource Link

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS –
TRACKING POULTRY FROM FARM TO FORK
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Risk mapping exercises were a large part of AI.COMM’s research toward
the end of the project, and attempted to track the actors involved in the
formal poultry market, as well as the informal market that moves within
the country and to or across regional borders. The goal of supply chain
analysis is to ascertain where an infection might be introduced into the
supply chain and thus pinpoint opportunities for interventions. After
initial supply chain studies in Bangladesh, West Bengal, India, and Nepal
were deemed helpful, a supply chain analysis was also undertaken in the
North West Frontier Province of Pakistan to follow actors in the poultry
supply chain from “farm to fork.”
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Semi-structured interviews
were conducted with farmers of
scavenging chickens and commercial
farmers, and with informants
along the commercial and backyard
market chains, including poultry
feed producers, wholesalers, retailers,
and transporters. This work provided
insights on health and hygiene issues
related to current poultry-rearing
practices, and channels through which
poultry diseases, especially AI, could
threaten bird and human populations.
It also identifi ed the stage(s) at which
precautionary intervention(s) would
be most effective.