Wijnand Klaver

Domaine de recherche

l'Afrique

Pays de résidence

Pays-Bas

Titre

Lecturer

Affiliation

Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Adresse électronique

klaver@ascleiden.nl

Adresse

Afrika-Studiecentrum
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

Téléphone/Télécopie

phone: +31-71-5276604
fax: +31-71-5273344

Site de web

http://www.ascleiden.nl

Pays de spécialisation

Kenya

Recherche

Mr. Wijnand Klaver works as a researcher on food and nutrition issues,
with a particular interest in the assessment of child growth in relation
to seasonality. He is currently involved in a research project on urban
agriculture in relation to household nutrition security in Nakuru, Kenya.

Publications

With D.W.J. Foeken, S.O. Owuor, and A.M. Mwangi
"Market forces threatening school feeding: the case for school farming in
Nakuru town, Kenya," In: M. Dekker and R.A. van Dijk (eds.) Markets
of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa. Leiden: Brill
publishers, 2010.

With R.N.M. Mwadime
"Food consumption and nutrition," In: Kenya coast handbook. Culture,
resources and development in the East African littoral. Hamburg: Lit Verlag,
pp. 279-300, 2000.

Food consumption and nutrition in the Kenya Coast. ASC Working Paper , vol.
31. 1998.

With Dick Foeken & Jan Hoorweg
Seasons and nutrition at the Kenya Coast. ASC Research Series,
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1995.

Mots-clés

nutrition ; child growth ; environmental studies.