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Beyond milk, meat, and eggs: Role of livestock in food and nutrition security

2012; Oxford University Press; Volume: 3; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2527/af.2013-0002

2160-6064

Jimmy W. Smith, Keith R. Sones, Delia Grace, Susan Macmillan, Shirley A. Tarawali, Mario Herrero,

Child Nutrition and Water Access

Livestock contribute to food supply by converting low-value materials, inedible or unpalatable for people, into milk, meat, and eggs; livestock also decrease food supply by competing with people for food, especially grains fed to pigs and poultry. Currently, livestock supply 13% of energy to the world's diet but consume one-half the world's production of grains to do so.