Majority of residents can no longer afford three meals per day in Nairobi while others have stopped cooking altogether, a report by African Cities research consortium has revealed.
The research links this to rising food and energy prices which the majority of those living in the informal settlement areas can no longer sustain.
As a result, children in informal settlements typically have extremely high prevalence of stunting, wasting, underweight and micronutrients deficiencies. "Such nutrition -related outcomes of unhealthy diets can significantly impair children's intellectual and physical development, with negative long-term impacts upon their well-being and socio economic progress more broadly," the report says.
The report however says some schools are promoting healthy diets in informal settlements citing the current school feeding programmers reaches only public primary schools yet the majority of schools in informal settlements are informal.
