Ensuring access to animal-sourced foods is a powerful way to ensure that the world’s poorest people can improve their diet, either through the animals they raise or the income they receive from them.
Livestock are critical to meet the Sustainable Development Goal 2 to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Animal-sourced foods are critically important for undernourished people, particularly women of child-bearing age, infants, children and the ill and elderly.