Food Environments and Their Influence on Food Choices: A Case Study in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.

ABSTRACT: The food environments that people have access to shape their food choices. The purpose of this study was to use mixed methods to characterize the external food environment in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya and to examine the individual factors that influence the way in which women interact with those environments to make food choices. We used a combination of food environment assessments (vendor mapping, collection of food prices, food quality assessments) and five focus group discussions with women (n = 26) in four villages within two informal settlements in Nairobi (Mukuru and Kibera) to better understand the drivers of food choice. We found a large number (n = 1163) of vendors selling a variety of food within the settlements. The highest number of vendors were sell

SUBMITTER: Downs SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9268418 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature