Nutrition & Public Health
Research, analysis, and field reports on nutrition and public health challenges across Kenya.
Why your grocery receipt disagrees with the official inflation rate, who actually absorbs the shock, what drives Kenyan food prices, and the policy conversation we should be having.
African indigenous vegetables are back on the Nairobi shelf — and now cost more than sukuma. The science, the comeback story, who profited, and the public-health policy moves still missing.
Kenya is Africa's largest avocado exporter. Smallholder farmers are earning more — and their grandchildren eat less of the fruit. A nutritionist's take on the boom, the asymmetry, and the policy fixes.
Between the under-five window and antenatal care lies a 15-year nutritional silence. Why adolescent-girl nutrition is Kenya's quietest gap — and the highest-leverage intervention nobody is pitching.
Kenya mandated maize flour fortification in 2012. Compliance audits show the bag often doesn't deliver the iron, zinc, and folate it claims. A blunt look at why — and what a working audit regime would do.
Twelve years and billions of shillings later, Kenya's Galana-Kulalu Food Security Project is the country's most expensive lesson in why mega-farms don't feed nations — and why we keep funding them anyway.
Why Kenya's stunting rate has stalled at one in five, what's missing from the standard playbook, and the cross-sectoral policy moves that would actually shift the curve.
How the NOVA classification reframes Kenyan supermarket shelves — what "fortified" and "whole grain" really mean, why it matters for children, and what better food policy would do about it.
Why iron supplements alone don't solve maternal anaemia in Kenya — and what the ANC conversation should actually cover. A clinical and policy view from a Kenyan nutritionist.
A sugar-sweetened beverage tax has been proposed and shelved repeatedly in Kenya. Here's why it keeps failing, who pays for the inaction, and what a working tax would actually look like.
