An egg for everyone: Pathways to universal access to one of nature's most nutritious foods.

ABSTRACT: Eggs are a highly nutritious food but have been shown to be infrequently consumed in many low-income countries, especially by women and children. We collate country-level data on egg production, availability, consumption, prices, industry structure, and contextual trends and use these to estimate current patterns and likely future outcomes under four alternative scenarios. These scenarios are as follows: incremental change based on expected economic growth and urbanisation (the base scenario); enhanced productivity of independent small producers; aggregated production in egg hubs; and the accelerated spread of large-scale intensive production. All scenarios are modelled out to 2030 using a mix of regression and deterministic models. We find that children's consumption of eggs is highly cor

SUBMITTER: Morris SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6866008 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature