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The Relationship between Livestock Ownership and Child Stunting in Three
Countries in Eastern Africa Using National Survey Data
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Mosites EM
; Rabinowitz PM
; Thumbi SM
; Montgomery JM
; Palmer GH
; May S
; Rowhani-Rahbar A
; Neuhouser ML
; Walson JL
PLoS One
2015[]; 10
(9
): e0136686
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Livestock ownership has the potential to improve child nutrition through various
mechanisms, although direct evaluations of household livestock and child stunting
status are uncommon. We conducted an analysis of Demographic and Health Survey
(DHS) datasets from Ethiopia (2011), Kenya (2008-2009), and Uganda (2010) among
rural children under 5 years of age to compare stunting status across levels of
livestock ownership. We classified livestock ownership by summing reported
household numbers of goats, sheep, cattle and chickens, as well as calculating a
weighted score to combine multiple species. The primary association was assessed
separately by country using a log-binomial model adjusted for wealth and region,
which was then stratified by child diarrheal illness, animal-source foods intake,
sub-region, and wealth index. This analysis included n = 8079 children from
Ethiopia, n = 3903 children from Kenya, and n = 1645 from Uganda. A ten-fold
increase in household livestock ownership had significant association with lower
stunting prevalence in Ethiopia (Prevalence Ratio [PR] 0.95, 95% CI 0.92-0.98)
and Uganda (PR 0.87, 95% CI 0.79-0.97), but not Kenya (PR 1.01, 95% CI
0.96-1.07). The weighted livestock score was only marginally associated with
stunting status. The findings varied slightly by region, but not by wealth,
diarrheal disease, or animal-source food intake. This analysis suggested a
slightly beneficial effect of household livestock ownership on child stunting
prevalence. The small effect size observed may be related to limitations of the
DHS dataset or the potentially complicated relationship between malnutrition and
livestock ownership, including livestock health and productivity.