Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Poverty"

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    • Hygiene and health-seeking behaviours of households as predictors of nutritional insecurity among preschool children in urban slums in Ethiopia: the case of Addis Ababa 

      Abate, Gugsa; Kogi-Makau, Wambui; Muroki, Nelson M (Health and Medical Publishing GroupDepartment of Food Science, Nutrition and Technology, University of Nairobi, 2001)
      The objective of the study was to establish hygiene and health-seeking practices most likely to be predictors of nutritional insecurity among children living in slums. A cross-sectional study was conducted from March to ...

    • Poverty dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar 

      Barret, Christopher B; Marenya, Paswell P; McPeak, John; Minten, Bart; Muriithi, Festus; Oluoch-Kosura, Willis; Place, Frank; Randrianarisoa, Jean C; Rasambainarivo, Jhon; Wangila, Justine (Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2004-10)
      DESPITE TWO DECADES OF MARKET-ORIENTED REFORMS throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, poverty rates increased, and the sense has spread that the “Washington Consensus” approach of getting macroeconomic policy and prices ...