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

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  • Headey, Derek D.
  • Hirvonen, Kalle

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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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  • Headey, Derek D. & Hirvonen, Kalle, 2015. "Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey," ESSP research notes 43, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    • Handle: RePEc:fpr:essprn:43
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    1. Shankar, Bhavani & Poole, Nigel & Bird, Frances A., 2019. "Agricultural inputs and nutrition in South Asia," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 28-38.
    2. Derek Headey & Kalle Hirvonen & John Hoddinott, 2018. "Animal Sourced Foods and Child Stunting," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 100(5), pages 1302-1319.
    3. Leight, Jessica & Awonon, Josué & Pedehombga, Abdoulaye & Ganaba, Rasmané & Gelli, Aulo, 2022. "How light is too light touch: The effect of a short training-based intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).

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    ETHIOPIA; EAST AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA; AFRICA; children; health; hunger; nutrition; poultry; livestock; poultry droppings; stunting; scavenging poultry;
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