Strengthening Vegetable Production and Consumption in a Kenyan Informal Settlement: A Feasibility and Preliminary Impact Assessment of a Sack Garden Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over 85% of Kibera's population, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, is food insecure. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions, such as sack gardens, have the potential to diversify diets-in turn, improving household food security and diet quality. Furthermore, the sale of extra vegetables may provide an income for program participants.

Objectives

The aim of this paper was to conduct a feasibility assessment and preliminary impact assessment of a nutrition-sensitive urban agriculture intervention that used sack gardens for women in Kibera.

Methods

Women, from a women's empowerment program, in Kibera (n = 36; n = 21 full program participants, n = 11 withdrawn, n = 4 new members) were engaged in a sack garden interventi

SUBMITTER: Zivkovic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9071549 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature