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.

Eggs and milk are nature’s first foods, designed to sustain early childhood with essential vitamins and minerals.

People eating diverse diets, including iron-rich meat, are less prone to anaemia and other nutrient deficiencies.

Animal-sourced foods are critically important for undernourished people, particularly women of child-bearing age, infants, children and the ill and elderly.

Ingesting small quantities of milk, meat and eggs provides large benefits to poor people living mostly on cheap starchy diets.