Mrs. Vida Korkor Lamptey is a Senior Research Scientist and the Unit Head of the poultry section of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Animal Research Institute (CSIR-ARI). She holds a Master of Science (M. Sc) degree in Animal Science from The Wageningen University, The Netherlands and a Bachelor’s degree (B. Sc) in Agriculture from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Her expertise includes improving local breeds to maximise their potential, characterization of animals, conservation of germplasm of our indigenous breeds and the use of local materials in feed formulation to reduce the cost of feeding especially for chicken. She has interest in exploring as we’ll as using ethno-veterinary medicinary resources as suitable alternatives for orthodox medication in our local breeds to curtail the antibiotics resistance in both animals and humans. Currently, she is the Acting Head of division for the Farmed Animal Technology Development. She has been involved in several donor funded projects and consultancies that have had marked influence the beneficiary’s farmers as well as stakeholders. These projects includes enhancing guinea fowl production through improved ethno-veterinary practices ( funded by WAAPP), broiler breed development project (funded by EDIF, Ghana), community-based small ruminant breeding project for the Northern Regions of Ghana ( funded by Canadian Development Agency through Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development), Creating competitive entrepreneurs in pig value chain (funded by Skills Development Fund ) and Establishment of a small scale layer model complex (funded by KAFACI, Korea). She has one published book, and eight peer-reviewed journals in her name.