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The results indicate that dairy cows are the most effective livestock studied for improving dietary diversity, both of the households that received them and of their neighbors. However, draft cattle recipient households also see significant improvements in their expenditure per capita, which in turn has a strong, significant, and consistent positive effect on dietary diversity. Thus, livestock improve dietary diversity through both a direct mechanism of consumption of animal products as well as indirectly through an increase in expenditure, some of which is used to purchase a larger variety of food.","abstract_html":"Smallholder livestock ownership has potential for nutritional impacts in excess of its effects on income, and may be one method of reducing food insecurity through an increase in dietary diversity. Dietary diversity can be understood both as a measure of macronutrient and micronutrient consumption as well as a household’s ability to access a variety of food. 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