Animal sourced foods and child stunting
Stunting affects 160 million pre-school children around the world, and imposes significant costs on a child’s health, cognitive development, schooling and economic performance. Stunting in early childhood has been linked to poor dietary diversity, notably low intake of animal-sourced foods (ASFs) ri...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Headey, Derek D. Hirvonen, Kalle Hoddinott, John F. |
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| description | Stunting affects 160 million pre-school children around the world, and imposes significant costs on a child’s health, cognitive development, schooling and economic performance. Stunting in early childhood has been linked to poor dietary diversity, notably low intake of animal-sourced foods (ASFs) rich in high quality protein and other growth-stimulating nutrients. Surprisingly, however, very little economic research has focused on ASFs and child growth. In this paper we redress this omission through an analysis of 112,553 children aged 6-23 months from 46 countries. We first document distinctive patterns of ASF consumption among children in different regions, particularly highly variable patterns of dairy consumption, low consumption of eggs and meat, and surprisingly frequent consumption of fish in several poor regions of Africa and Asia. We then examine how ASF consumption is associated with child stunting in multivariate models saturated with control variables. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1463452025-11-06T06:39:48Z Animal sourced foods and child stunting Headey, Derek D. Hirvonen, Kalle Hoddinott, John F. child nutrition animal products animal source foods nutritional disorders food policies agricultural policies stunting malnutrition nutrition developing countries livestock food consumption fisheries dietary diversity Stunting affects 160 million pre-school children around the world, and imposes significant costs on a child’s health, cognitive development, schooling and economic performance. Stunting in early childhood has been linked to poor dietary diversity, notably low intake of animal-sourced foods (ASFs) rich in high quality protein and other growth-stimulating nutrients. Surprisingly, however, very little economic research has focused on ASFs and child growth. In this paper we redress this omission through an analysis of 112,553 children aged 6-23 months from 46 countries. We first document distinctive patterns of ASF consumption among children in different regions, particularly highly variable patterns of dairy consumption, low consumption of eggs and meat, and surprisingly frequent consumption of fish in several poor regions of Africa and Asia. We then examine how ASF consumption is associated with child stunting in multivariate models saturated with control variables. 2017 2024-06-21T09:06:43Z 2024-06-21T09:06:43Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146345 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148071 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148533 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147752 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146367 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148066 application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Headey, Derek D.; Hirvonen, Kalle; and Hoddinott, John F. 2017. Animal sourced foods and child stunting. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1695. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146345 |
| spellingShingle | child nutrition animal products animal source foods nutritional disorders food policies agricultural policies stunting malnutrition nutrition developing countries livestock food consumption fisheries dietary diversity Headey, Derek D. Hirvonen, Kalle Hoddinott, John F. Animal sourced foods and child stunting |
| title | Animal sourced foods and child stunting |
| title_full | Animal sourced foods and child stunting |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Animal sourced foods and child stunting |
| title_short | Animal sourced foods and child stunting |
| title_sort | animal sourced foods and child stunting |
| topic | child nutrition animal products animal source foods nutritional disorders food policies agricultural policies stunting malnutrition nutrition developing countries livestock food consumption fisheries dietary diversity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146345 |
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