Small-scale egg production centres increase children's egg consumption in rural Zambia.

ABSTRACT: Animal source foods can efficiently enhance dietary quality, but they remain inaccessible and unaffordable for many women and young children in remote, low-income communities. We piloted an intervention in which 20 groups established egg production centres (EPCs) in their rural Zambian communities to increase the availability of eggs in the local food system. In a repeated cross-sectional design over 1 year (midline [4 months after the start of egg production] and endline [11 months]), we evaluated programme impact on household egg acquisition within those communities and on egg consumption and height-for-age z score (HAZ) among young children (6-36 months) using multilevel linear, logistic, and truncated negative binomial regression techniques. At midline, households in project areas were

SUBMITTER: Dumas SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6865982 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature