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3 Determine each household's food security status in this area.
4 Assess the nutrition status of children below five years of age in the
households.
5 Establish the relationship between farming practices and the household's
food security.
Hypotheses
There were two hypotheses:
1 There was a positive relationship between household food security and the
farming practices adopted by the peri-urban farmers of Kamae.
2 There would be a significant improvement in household food security after
the intervention.
M
ETHODOLOGY
Research design
This was an intervention study project which was semi-longitudinal in nature
with an intervention period of one year. The research adopted the
participatory approach to nutrition security (PANS) using the Triple-A cycle,
as shown in Figure 1.1.
PANS facilitated community members to map out their problems, design
their solutions and take action to implement these solutions. A baseline survey
was carried out to assess the food production and food security situation in
Kamae settlement. Kamae area is located north of Nairobi in Kahawa Ward,
Source: Adapted from Iannotti and Gillespie, 2002
Figure 1.1 The (PANS) Triple-A approach
