Nutrition & Public Health
Research, analysis, and field reports on nutrition and public health challenges across Kenya.
The most-evidenced window in maternal and child health hasn't moved Kenya's stunting curve as much as it should. A view from both the clinical bedside and the partnerships desk on why — and what the next decade needs.
Kenya doesn't have a food security strategy — it has a relief reflex. The three pillars of real climate adaptation, what's in the way, and the trade we keep failing to make.
The standard postpartum nutrition guidance is technically correct and practically insufficient. What real Kenyan postpartum recovery actually requires — and where the curriculum falls short.
Kenya has 4–5 million camels and a public-health asset hiding in plain sight. Why camel milk doesn't reach most Kenyans, and the integrated investment that would change that.
A consolidated look at Kenya's ~KSh 28–38 billion nutrition spend — where it goes, what it misses, and the reallocations that would shift outcomes without growing the total.
What separates the school feeding programmes that move learning and nutrition outcomes from the ones that just deliver a photo-op. Six factors, five fixes, and what better policy would do.
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.
