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Abstract
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.
Acknowledgements
Senior authorship is shared by Azzarri and Zezza. We would like to thank Paul Winters, Gero Carletto, Luc Christiaensen and the participants of the World Bank workshop on ‘Farm-level pathways to improved nutritional status’ for their helpful suggestions. The comments of two anonymous referees helped us greatly improve an earlier draft. Any errors and omissions are entirely ours, as are the views expressed in the paper that should not be attributed to the organisations we are affiliated with.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.