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Food Environment Lens: Exploring Mothers’ Perspectives and the Dietary Landscape of (Agro)-Pastoral Children in Kenya’s Drylands

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This study compared the dietary diversity and food variety scores of children under 5 years of age from different ethnic groups in Marsabit County, Northern Kenya. Mothers' explanations for their children's food choices related to characteristics of their personal food environment, such as accessibility, affordability, convenience, healthiness and food acceptance. Their reasons for choosing or not choosing certain foods differed markedly between the Saku highlands and Laisamis lowlands. This highlights the importance of contextual factors in determining their practices. Such knowledge is essential when designing interventions to improve sustainable and healthy diets, so that they are truly applicable by the targeted communities.

Source: Ecology of Food and Nutrition

DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2025.2484536

Authors: Patricia J. Kiprono, Hussein T. Wario, Waliou Amoussa Hounkpatin, Brigitte A. Kaufmann

Institutions: University of Kassel, Deutsches Institut für Tropische und Subtropische Landwirtschaft, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, University of Hohenheim

Language: English

Topic: Child Nutrition and Water Access

Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics

Field: Nursing

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft