Does Livestock Ownership Affect Animal Source Foods Consumption and Child Nutritional Status? Evidence from Rural Uganda

In many developing countries consumption of animal source foods (ASF) among the poor is still at a level where increasing its share in total caloric intake may have many positive nutritional benefits. This paper explores whether ownership of different livestock species increases consumption of ASF a...

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Published inThe Journal of development studies Vol. 51; no. 8; pp. 1034 - 1059
Main Authors Azzarri, Carlo, Zezza, Alberto, Haile, Beliyou, Cross, Elizabeth
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 03.08.2015
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Child health
Childrens health
Diet
Food consumption
Livestock
Low income groups
Nutrition
Nutritional status
Ownership
Research methods
Rural areas
Uganda
Uganda
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Summary:In many developing countries consumption of animal source foods (ASF) among the poor is still at a level where increasing its share in total caloric intake may have many positive nutritional benefits. This paper explores whether ownership of different livestock species increases consumption of ASF and helps improving child nutritional status, finding some evidence that both food consumption patterns and nutritional outcomes may be affected by livestock ownership in rural Uganda. Our results are suggestive that promoting (small) livestock ownership has the potential for affecting human nutrition in rural Uganda, but further research is needed to more precisely estimate the direction and size of these effects.
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ISSN:0022-0388
1743-9140
DOI:10.1080/00220388.2015.1018905