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An Assessment of potential Health hazards in sweetpotatoes (ipomoea batatas) / grown and consumed in urban areas" around Nairobi
(2003)
This study was carried out to investigate the safety of urban grown food crops
with respect to contamination by heavy metals. Sweetpotatoes, grown and
consumed around Nairobi, were used as the reference food crop.
This ...
Planning and management for storm water and sullage in environmentally vulnerable informal low income urban communities
(1996-10)
This study was carried out in Daraja Mbili within Kisii municipality and concerns environmental consequences of uncontrolled stormwater and sullage in environmentally vulnerable quasi-legal urban low income settlements. ...
Nutritional, hygiene ans socio-economic dimensions of street foods urban areas:the case of Nairobi
(2002)
Exceptionally high rates of urbanisation in developing countries have been coupled with lack of
employment and increasing urban poverty and undernutrition. Urban populations are thus utilising a
variety of initiatives ...