Executive summary: Animal advocacy organizations in Africa are making progress on cage-free campaigns despite limited resources, by engaging stakeholders like consumers, farmers, and corporations through workshops, training, social media, and persistent outreach.
Key points:
Education for African Animal Welfare in Tanzania has reached over 200,000 people through social media and media coverage to raise awareness, and convinced two major poultry farms to commit to cage-free systems in 2023.
Animal Welfare League in Ghana held successful workshops where 77% of farmers embraced cage-free, while pushing corporations through in-person meetings after emails failed.
Sibanye Animal Welfare and Conservancy Trust in Zimbabwe has seen success disseminating information and training stakeholders, but faces resistance from farmers hesitant to transition from battery cages.
Groups emphasized the importance of flexibility, research, collaborations, and tenacity despite funding and infrastructure barriers to drive cage-free progress.
Next steps include more data gathering, transition support for farmers, infrastructure development, and exploring creative outreach when corporations are unresponsive.
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Executive summary: Animal advocacy organizations in Africa are making progress on cage-free campaigns despite limited resources, by engaging stakeholders like consumers, farmers, and corporations through workshops, training, social media, and persistent outreach.
Key points:
Education for African Animal Welfare in Tanzania has reached over 200,000 people through social media and media coverage to raise awareness, and convinced two major poultry farms to commit to cage-free systems in 2023.
Animal Welfare League in Ghana held successful workshops where 77% of farmers embraced cage-free, while pushing corporations through in-person meetings after emails failed.
Sibanye Animal Welfare and Conservancy Trust in Zimbabwe has seen success disseminating information and training stakeholders, but faces resistance from farmers hesitant to transition from battery cages.
Groups emphasized the importance of flexibility, research, collaborations, and tenacity despite funding and infrastructure barriers to drive cage-free progress.
Next steps include more data gathering, transition support for farmers, infrastructure development, and exploring creative outreach when corporations are unresponsive.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.