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The problem
Intervention: Increasing consumption of animal-sourced foods (dairy, meat/fish, eggs) through improved affordability and accessibility
Who it was tested with: 130,432 children aged 6-23 months from 49 countries.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"We attempt to redress this omission through an analysis of 130,432 children aged 6-23 months from 49 countries. We document distinctive patterns of ASF consumption among children in different regions. We find evidence of strong associations between stunting and a generic ASF consumption indicator, as well as dairy, meat/fish, and egg consumption indicators." The study demonstrates consistent associations between animal-sourced food consumption and reduced stunting across a large multi-country sample, though the observational design limits causal inference.
Observational design cannot establish causation; cross-sectional associations may reflect confounding; study does not isolate individual effects of different ASF types or control for other nutritional or socioeconomic factors
Across countries and designs
2 studies · 6 countries
