Peri-urban agriculture and household food and nutrition security around Eldoret, Kenya

IF 5.6 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Food Security Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI:10.1007/s12571-024-01475-8

Ivica Petrikova, Melvine Anyango Otieno, Gertrude Were, Mahmoud Eltholth, Ana Rodriguez Mateos, Seeromanie Harding, Victoria Moran, Odipo Osano, Jennifer Cole

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Rapid urbanisation in low- and middle-income countries, which has encroached on agricultural lands but has not been consistently accompanied by corresponding improvements in water and sanitation services, has raised questions about its impact on the food and nutrition security of households living in transitional, peri-urban areas. Through an analysis of survey data collected from 518 households living around the town of Eldoret, Kenya, we investigate the existing links between peri-urban households’ engagement in agriculture, their dietary behaviour, and their children’s nutrition outcomes. We find that peri-urban households engaged in agriculture, particularly in crop growing and in the sales of their agricultural produce, have more diverse and nutritious diets than agriculturally non-engaged households, all other things being equal. However, a significant improvement in children’s health outcomes is observed in these households only when coupled with improved water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions.

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肯尼亚埃尔多雷特周边城郊农业与家庭粮食和营养安全

中低收入国家的快速城市化进程侵占了农业用地，但却没有相应地改善供水和卫生服务，这引发了有关城市化对过渡性城郊地区家庭粮食和营养安全影响的问题。通过分析从肯尼亚埃尔多雷特镇周围 518 个家庭收集到的调查数据，我们研究了城郊家庭从事农业、饮食行为及其子女营养结果之间的现有联系。我们发现，在其他条件相同的情况下，从事农业，特别是种植和销售农产品的城郊家庭比不从事农业的家庭拥有更多样化和更有营养的饮食。然而，只有在供水、环境卫生和个人卫生条件得到改善的情况下，这些家庭的儿童健康状况才会得到明显改善。

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Food Security FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-

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14.00

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期刊介绍： Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches. Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption. Nutrition, food quality and food safety. Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.