Nutrient-dense animal-source foods are essential to human development
During critical life phases (during pregnancy and lactation, infancy, and early childhood through adolescence), optimal livestock-derived food consumption safeguards the health, education, nutrition and well-being of women and children, preventing stunting, wasting and premature death
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Provide the poor and vulnerable with access to animal-source foods
Where poor and vulnerable groups cannot access livestock-derived foods, enhancing livestock productivity, improving distribution and processing systems, extending the life of perishable food products, and providing livestock-derived foods in affordable small quantities can widen and enrich food choices
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Animal-source foods can reduce risk of malnutrition or undernutrition
For people at risk of malnutrition or undernutrition, well-balanced food consumption (including livestock-derived foods), ensuring equitable access to safe milk, meat and eggs and increasing dietary diversity will support healthy growth and development and provide lifelong benefits
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