Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey

The agricultural sector in Ethiopia and in other developing countries is increasingly asked to contribute to reducing undernutrition as well as poverty and food insecurity. Within agriculture, the livestock sector is thought to play a particularly important role in this respect, since the consumptio...

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Autores principales: Headey, Derek D., Hirvonen, Kalle
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151471
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description The agricultural sector in Ethiopia and in other developing countries is increasingly asked to contribute to reducing undernutrition as well as poverty and food insecurity. Within agriculture, the livestock sector is thought to play a particularly important role in this respect, since the consumption of animal-sourced foods (ASFs) is a well-known determinant of child growth and the production of ASFs is an important source of income. However, there is growing evidence of associated health risks of poultry rearing in developing countries, particularly for young children who have been observed to directly ingest poultry feces. This is hypothesized to contribute to chronic gut damage – a condition termed environmental enteric disorder (EED) – that is widely believed to be a leading cause of child stunting in developing countries such as Ethiopia.
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spelling CGSpace1514712025-12-08T10:29:22Z Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey Headey, Derek D. Hirvonen, Kalle poultry health stunting poultry droppings hunger scavengers nutrition children livestock The agricultural sector in Ethiopia and in other developing countries is increasingly asked to contribute to reducing undernutrition as well as poverty and food insecurity. Within agriculture, the livestock sector is thought to play a particularly important role in this respect, since the consumption of animal-sourced foods (ASFs) is a well-known determinant of child growth and the production of ASFs is an important source of income. However, there is growing evidence of associated health risks of poultry rearing in developing countries, particularly for young children who have been observed to directly ingest poultry feces. This is hypothesized to contribute to chronic gut damage – a condition termed environmental enteric disorder (EED) – that is widely believed to be a leading cause of child stunting in developing countries such as Ethiopia. 2015-11-12 2024-08-01T02:57:32Z 2024-08-01T02:57:32Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151471 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ethiopian Development Research Institute Headey, Derek D. and Hirvonen, Kalle. 2015. Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey. ESSP II Research Note 43. Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151471
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Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey
title Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey
title_full Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey
title_fullStr Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey
title_full_unstemmed Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey
title_short Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey
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stunting
poultry droppings
hunger
scavengers
nutrition
children
livestock
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