Population growth in Kenya is given as 5 percent in the past five years, while it is estimated that 20-40 percent of its inhabitants live in absolute poverty (MoPND, 2003). The poor in Nairobi seek food security and income through crop and animal keeping on small and insecure plots. Estimates by Foeken and Mwangi (2000) indicated that about 150,000 people or 30 percent of the households in Nairobi practice farming and that 80-85 percent of the cultivators are women.
Publication year
2006
Authors
Language
English
Geographic
Kenya
