The effectiveness of an egg-based intervention on improving the nutrition of poor school-age children in China: A quasi-experimental assessment.

Objectives: Although egg-based interventions are effective in alleviating undernutrition for infants and toddlers, little is known regarding their effectiveness for children in remote and poor areas of China. For policy and intervention implications, the aim of this study was to examine the effects of offering one hard-boiled egg per school day to school-age children in less-developed areas of China.

Methods: This analytical sample included 346 school-age children.

Livestock production, animal source food intake, and young child growth: the role of gender for ensuring nutrition impacts.

Animal source foods (ASF) provide critical micronutrients in highly bioavailable forms, with the potential to efficiently address undernutrition among young children living in developing countries. There is limited evidence for how livestock ownership might increase ASF intake in poor households either through own-consumption or income generation. Along with lack of nutrition knowledge, gender dimensions may affect the pathways leading from livestock ownership to child ASF intake and ultimately to young child growth.