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Food security responses to Covid-19: A situational analysis of urban agriculture in Kenya

Covid-19 exacerbated serious systemic challenges in Kenya’s food systems, including weak logistics, market shutdowns, and poor market…

Jun 14, 2021

Food security responses to Covid-19: A situational analysis of urban agriculture in Kenya

Jun 14, 2021

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Covid-19: An opportunity, or yet another blow for Kenya’s dairy sector?

Perhaps one of the low-hanging fruit opportunities for farmers is producing their own feed inputs...

Oct 13, 2020

Covid-19: An opportunity, or yet another blow for Kenya’s dairy sector?

Oct 13, 2020

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College students: A forgotten demographic in tackling Kenya’s food access gaps

Learning institutions were among the first to shut down as soon as the first Covid-19 case was reported in early March.

Aug 20, 2020

College students: A forgotten demographic in tackling Kenya’s food access gaps

Aug 20, 2020

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Restructuring the Kenyan food system post Covid-19

Since the pandemic began close to four months ago, adjustments in every key industry have had to happen…

Jul 24, 2020

Restructuring the Kenyan food system post Covid-19

Jul 24, 2020

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It is time for Kenya to invest in, and consume indigenous foods

Maize, Kenya’s current grain of choice, was cemented as a staple crop in the early 1900s, when Kenya was a British colony.

Jul 1, 2020

It is time for Kenya to invest in, and consume indigenous foods

Jul 1, 2020

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Protecting maternal and child nutrition amidst Covid-19

With schools currently closed, families have more mouths to feed, but with a much lower ability to access food…

Jun 28, 2020

Protecting maternal and child nutrition amidst Covid-19

Jun 28, 2020

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Will Covid-19 increase food safety measures in Kenya?

Before the Covid-19 outbreak, Kenyans did not really care about where the fish they consumed came from.

Jun 20, 2020

Will Covid-19 increase food safety measures in Kenya?

Jun 20, 2020

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Covid-19 presents an opportunity for agricultural, and diet, diversity

Very few initiatives promote more diversity, for instance through including locally available, and nutrient-rich, food crops,

Jun 11, 2020

Covid-19 presents an opportunity for agricultural, and diet, diversity

Jun 11, 2020

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Covid-19 transforming food distribution in urban Kenya

Farmers, who would sell to schools and other institutions, are now targeting small-scale food retailers in residential areas…

Jun 2, 2020

Covid-19 transforming food distribution in urban Kenya

Jun 2, 2020

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Covid-19: A stress test of Kenya’s resilience to food-system disruptions

There are ways to strengthen the food distribution infrastructure to enhance both food access, on the demand side, and food-based…

May 22, 2020

Covid-19: A stress test of Kenya’s resilience to food-system disruptions

May 22, 2020

Sharon J Cheboi

Sharon J Cheboi

Open to research opportunities in: Agriculture & development writing across food security, rural dev, politics of food, food-colonialism, food policy.

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