Turning backyard chickens into profitable businesses: Poultry operations run by women take off in Tanzania and Kenya

Turning backyard chickens into profitable businesses: Poultry operations run by women take off in Tanzania and Kenya

Raising chickens in East Africa is a woman’s business—but rarely, until now, a woman’s opportunity Across East Africa’s rural areas, chickens are ubiquitous. Not the plump, all-white broilers that end up on supermarket shelves, but the lean, long-legged, small-bodied, and multicolored native village birds known locally as “kuku wa kienyeji”. Some are distinguished by (and prized for) naked necks, frizzled feathers, or tuft-like beards under thei…