Name:Uzima Chicken

Industry: Farming

Website: https://www.uzimachicken.com/

Description: Uzima Chicken is a social enterprise focused on making smallholder farmers healthier and wealthier. Uzima Chicken distributes an improved breed of chicken that is 4x more productive than local breeds in terms of egg and meat production while requiring the same level of management and care as the local chicken. With Uzima’s bird, rural households in East Africa can build income resilience and introduce larger volumes of animal protein into their daily diets. Uzima Chicken seeks to reach every rural household by 2025 and aims to be the leading smallholder-focused poultry enterprise in East Africa. In the past 3 years of operations, Uzima Chicken has attracted investments from the AgDevCo and Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund.