Benefits and Selected Health Risks of Urban Dairy Production in Nakuru, Kenya
Date
2010Author
Erastus K, Kang’ethe
Alice, Njehu
Nancy, Karanja
Mary, Njenga
Type
Book chapterLanguage
enMetadata
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Health risks from food production in urban areas are attracting increased international
attention, especially in poor countries with rapid urbanization where urban
farming is widely practiced to mitigate hunger and poor nutrition as well as reduce
food expenditures. This study examines a selected range of health risks as compared
to the benefits for an urban population for which a considerable quantity of background
data are available, namely Nakuru municipality in Kenya. The research was carried out in conjunction with a related survey of crop-livestock-waste interactions in the same town, described in the previous chapter.
Local Identifier
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6250-8_12,Citation
G. Prain et al. (eds.), African Urban HarvestPublisher
International Potato Center, Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Department Of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi