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Our global farm data sets
We maintain a comprehensive global database of typical poultry farms and production systems. The dataset provides detailed information at the whole-farm level, including machinery, buildings, equipment, land use, labour inputs and wages, as well as overhead costs. At the enterprise level, the poultry data are structured into two principal components: a performance section, which includes indicators such as the number of production cycles, live weights, mortality rates, and feed conversion ratios; and a prices and costs section, which records variables such as chick and meat prices, along with variable and fixed costs. This structure facilitates a thorough analysis of total returns, costs, and profitability. The database is updated on an annual basis, ensuring that all data are not older than one year.
Example charts from the Result Data Base
Sector data
You look for information how chicks and chicken meat, production and consumption in individual countries developed? You would like to know how trade volumes and values as well as key chicks and chicken meat prices developed? We are collecting these data though our network partners and UNComtrade. Data is updated every year and not older than one year. Below are some illustrations from Germany.
Time series of inventories, production and consumption
Dates are from national statistics in our partner countries and comprise inventories broilers’ farms, production of broilers and chicks. They are added by slaughter quantities (birds and tons) as well as total consumption, per capita consumption and total exports and imports in terms of quantities and USD-values.
Time series of prices for broilers and chicken
Data are from national statistic of the partner countries. They comprise prices for broilers and fattening breed.
Tailormade studies
The agri benchmark Poultry tool has been applied in several national and European (Horizon) Projects. Publications (Deliverables, Policy briefs, etc.) can be found via the projects´ web pages:
PPILOW – Poultry and Pig Low-input and Organic production systems’ Welfare
aWISH – Animal Welfare Indicators at the Slaughterhouse
AGROECOLOGY Partnership – VALORAGRO
(Valorisation of agricultural production wastes through fermentation into pig and poultry feed)
Project: Turkeys with untrimmed beaks – A practice-based project with media knowledge transfer
Project: Impact of meat and dairy exports on developing countries (IMMPEX)
Publications
Our publications cover scientific papers and publications, other publications and Poultry Reports.
Please find below a selection of the most important publications.
Poultry Reports
Scientific papers and publications
Thobe P, Chibanda C, Boimah M, Banhazi T (2025) How can Data from Different Sources be Combined to Improve the Reliability of the Dataset to Produce Robust Results in Animal Welfare Impact Assessments?
Thobe P, Chibanda C, Almadani I, Koch S (2025) Chicken meat production in global comparison – production systems and economics. Stud Agric Econ 127(3):220-227, DOI:10.7896/j.3313
Chibanda C, Thobe P, Almadani I, van Horne P, Deblitz C, Wieck C
(2025) Improving broiler farm competitiveness in Ghana and Senegal: insights from comparative analysis with Germany and the Netherlands. Agriculture & Food Security, Volume 13:65, DOI:10.1186/s40066-024-00519-8
Zamani O, Chibanda C, Boimah M, Asante-Addo C
(2025) Aligning policy for success in developing countries: evidence from the poultry sector of Ghana. Agric Food Econ 13:5, DOI:10.1186/s40100-025-00348-8
Chibanda C, Almadani I, Thobe T, Wieck C (2022) Broiler production systems in Ghana: economics and the impact of frozen chicken imports. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. DOI: doi.org/10.22434/IFAMR2021.0142
Boimah M, Chibanda C, Schott J, Awuni S (2022) Doing it right to alleviate poverty: application of the sustainable food value chain development framework to Ghana’s poultry sector. Int J Agric Sustain 20(7):1454-1469, doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2022.2152605
Chibanda C, Agethen K, Deblitz C, Zimmer Y, Almadani I, Garming H, Rohlmann C, Schütte J, Thobe P, Verhaagh M, Behrendt L, Tudela Staub DF, Lasner T
(2020) The typical farm approach and its application by the Agri Benchmark network. Agriculture 10(12):646, DOI:10.3390/agriculture10120646
Other publications
Boimah M, Thobe P, Chibanda C, Banhazi T 2025
“Smart Farming in Action: Evaluating AI Weight Sensors for Health and Profitability in Pig Production”, KIDA Conference 2025. Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, ISBN 978-3-949807-31-2; DOI: 0.48480/kida-2025.
Pluschke H, Thobe P, Werner D, Baldinger L (2025)
Neue Genetik im Test. Ökologie & Landbau, 04/2025.
Thobe P, Chibanda C, Pluschke H (2024)
Evaluation économique des performances de trois souches à double fin comme alternative à l’élimination des poussins mâles. In: Journée technique poules pondeuses : Pratiques innovantes pour les éleveurs ; 11 avril 2024.
Thobe P, Chibanda C, Pluschke H (2024)
Das Zweinutzungshuhn in der Praxis: Wirtschaftliche Effizienz von Bruderhähnen eines neuen Genotyps in Deutschland. In: Bruder V, Röder-Dreher U, Breuer L, Herzig C, Gattinger A (eds) Landwirtschaft und Ernährung – Transformation macht nur gemeinsam Sinn : 17. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau, 5.-8. März 2024, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen ; Tagungsband. 1. Auflage. Frankfurt am Main: FiBL Deutschland eV, pp 255-256, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.11204339
Thobe P, Chibanda C, Baldinger L, Pluschke H (2024)
Economic efficiency of males of dual-purpose genotypes in organic poultry production in Germany. In: Barroeta AC, Garcés Narro C, Sayegh G (eds) XVI European Poultry Conference of the WPSA : Valencia – Spain, June 24 – 28, 2024 ; Book of abstracts. WPSA, p 531
Thobe P, Verhaagh M, Niewind P (2024)
Additional costs of turkey hens with untrimmed beaks in enriched housing conditions, Experiences from the MuD animal welfare project #Pute@Praxis, European Poultry, Conference in Valencia, 26 June 2024.
Thobe P, Almadani I, Chibanda C, Pluschke H, Baldinger L (2023)
(2023) Economic viability of dual-purpose chickens in organic farming (on-farm) in Germany: [presented at] the PPILOW 4th Annual Meeting, 23.-24.10.2023, Perugia, Italy.
Chibanda C, Thobe P, Almadani I, Deblitz C (2023)
Broiler production in Ghana and Senegal: farm performance and economics. Braunschweig: Thünen Institute of Farm Economics, 2 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2023/05a, DOI:10.3220/PB1672822435000
Thobe P, Chibanda C, Almadani I, Schickramm L (2020)
A standard operating procedure to define typical poultry farms [online]. Braunschweig: agri benchmark. Thünen-Institut, 12 p, SOP Poultry (pdf-document, 586 KB)