Jan Hoorweg
The African Studies Centre Leiden is sad to report that Jan Hoorweg passed away on 3 August 2022.
In memoriam Jan Hoorweg (1939-2022)
Jan Hoorweg retired in 2004. He was affiliated to the African Studies Centre Leiden as an honorary researcher. At different times he was Professor of Food Security at the University of Wageningen (NL) and Professor of Human Ecology at Moi University (Eldoret). He was also the Director of the Food and Nutrition Studies Programme (Kenya) and the Coordinator of the Coast Environment Research Station in Malindi. He was a pyschologist by training and did research in the areas of nutrition, project evaluation, rural development and environment. His later interests were coastal ecology and issues of coastal development. He did extensive research on the Kenya Coast and was the editor of the Kenya Coast Handbook, the Kenya Coast Portal and the Proceedings of the series of Coastal Ecology Conferences.
Kenya Coast Portal
Colonial memoirs (2017)
Artisanal fishers on the Kenyan coast : household livelihoods and marine resource management (2009)
Advances in coastal ecology : people, processes and ecosystems in Kenya (2009)
Introduction (2009)
Marine Conservation: The voice of the fishers (2006)
Income diversification and fishing practices among artisanal fishers on the Malindi-Kilifi coast (2006)
Income diversification and resource conservation among artisanal fishers at the Central Kenyan Coast. NIRP Final Report (2003)
Awareness of resource degradation among artisanal fisherman in Kilifio and Lamu (2003)
Recent advances in coastal ecology : studies from Kenya (2003)
Conclusion: Culture, resources and development in the Kenya Coast (2000)
Bedouin Households and Sheep Production in the Negev Desert, Israel (2000)
Nutrition in agricultural development: intensive dairy farming by rural smallholders (2000)
Kenya Coast handbook : culture, resources and development in the East African littoral (2000)
Dunes, groundwater, mangroves and birdlife in coastal Kenya (1998)
Market dependence of pastoralists in Kenya and Israel (1998)
Environmental management research and training in Coast Province, Kenya (1997)
Introduction: environmental management, research and training in coast province, Kenya (1997)
When households run out of fuel : responses of rural households to decreasing fuelwood availability, Ntcheu District, Malawi (1997)
Household Fuel Use and Food Consumption: Relationship and seasonal effects in Central Malawi (1996)
Nutrition in Agricultural Development : Land settlement in Coast Province, Kenya (1996)
Seasons and nutrition at the Kenya coast (1995)
Commercialization of rice and nutrition: a case from West Kenya (1994)
FNSP-studies, 1985-1992 : results & recommendations (1993)
Socio-economic and nutritional studies in Coast Province : summaries and recommendations : proceedings of a dissemination seminar at Diani, 28-30th November 1990 (1991)
Dairy development and nutrition in Kilifi District, Kenya (1991)
Economic and nutritional conditions at settlement schemes in Coast Province (1991)
Nutrition and Dairy Development in Kilifi District (1991)
Child nutrition in the pre-harvest season: food intake and nutritional status of pre-school children in Nyanza Province, Kenya (1991)
Intervention in child nutrition : evaluation studies in Kenya (1989)
Seasonality in the coastal lowlands of Kenya : Part 2: Introduction to seasonality (1988)
Impact evaluation of child nutrition programmes (1988)
Nutrition in agricultural development : The case of irrigated rice cultivation in West Kenya (1988)
Seasonality in the coastal lowlands of Kenya : Part 1: Research objectives and study design / Jan Hoorweg, Ted Kliest & Rudo Niemeijer (1988)
Nutrition Intervention Research Project (1987)
Review of Dodge & P Wiebe : Crisis in Uganda : The breakdown of health services (1987)
Some nutritional aspects of irrigated rice cultivation in Western Kenya (1986)
Nutritional aspects of rice cultivation in Nyanza Province, Kenya (1985)
Nutrition survey in Murang'a District, Kenya : Part 2 : Nutritional cognition and the food consumption of pre-school children (1984)
Nutrition survey in Murang'a District, Kenya : Part 1 : Relations between ecology, economic and social conditions, and nutritional state of pre-school children (1983)
The control of non-treatment variables : necessity or illusion? (1983)
Sarvodaya/NOVIB Food Aid Programme. Report of an evaluation at the request of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement (Sri Lanka) and NOVIB (Netherlands) (1982)
The effects of nutrition rehabilitation at three Family Life Training Centres in Central Province, Kenya (1982)
Preliminary studies on some aspects of Kikuyu food habits (1980)
The impact of nutrition education at three health centres in Central Province, Kenya (1980)
The nutritional impact of the Pre-School Health Programme at three clinics in Central Province, Kenya (1980)
Intellectual abilities and protein-energy malnutrition : acute malnutrition VS. chronic undernutrition (1979)
Family life training centres, Kenya, 1978 (1979)
Evaluation of nutrition education in Africa : community research in Uganda, 1971-1972 (1979)
Classification of foods among the Kikuyu (1978)
Preferences of Kikuyu mothers for children's foods (1978)
Report on the familiy life training centres, Bungoma, Busia, Kisumu, Kiambu and Murang'a (1977)
Environmental risk factors in outpatient recovery from malnutrition (1977)
A short dictionary of Kikuyu names of foods, meals and drinks (1977)
The effects of protein energy malnutrition in early childhood on intellectual and motor abilities in later childhood and adolescence (1976)
Protein-energy malnutrition and intellectual abilities : a study of teen-age Ugandan children (1976)
Nutrition intervention and environment : a research proposal to study different nutrition intervention programmes in different ecological environments (1976)
Africa (south of the Sahara) (1976)
Social environment and outpatient recovery from malnutrition (1975)
The long-term effects of protein-energy malnutrition in early childhood on bone age, bone cortical thickness and height (1975)
Evaluation of two nutrition rehabilitation clinics in Uganda (1973)
Evaluation of nutrition education: Some experiences from Uganda (1972)
The influence of malnutrition on psychological and neurological development : preliminary communication (1972)
Psychology in Africa : a bibliographical survey (1971)
Gedachtenbepaling over psychologie en ontwikkelingslanden (1968)
Sociaal psychologisch onderzoek bij de Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (1966)
Advances in coastal ecology : people, processes and ecosystems in Kenya
Leiden: African Studies Centre, African studies collection 20, 2009
J.C. Hoorweg; N. Muthiga
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Income diversification and resource conservation among artisanal fishers at the Central Kenyan Coast. NIRP Final Report
Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2003
J.C. Hoorweg; A. Degen; B. Wangila
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Market dependence of pastoralists in Kenya and Israel
Leiden: Africa Studies Centre, NIRP Research for Policy Series, vol. 8 1998
A. Degen; A. Nonow; F. Zaal; D. Otieno; J.C. Hoorweg
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Seasons and nutrition at the Kenya coast
Aldershot [etc.]: Avebury [etc.], Research series ; 1995/7 1995
J.C. Hoorweg; D.W.J. Foeken; W. Klaver
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Dairy development and nutrition in Kilifi District, Kenya
Nairobi: Ministry of Planning and National Development, Food and Nutrition Planning Unit, FNSP report ; 35 1991
P. Leegwater; J. Ngolo; J.C. Hoorweg
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Nutrition and Dairy Development in Kilifi District
Nairobi / Leiden: Ministry of Planning and National Development / African Studies Centre, Food and Nutrition Studies Programme Report no. 35 1991
P. Leegwater; J. Ngolo; J.C. Hoorweg
Socio-economic and nutritional studies in Coast Province : summaries and recommendations : proceedings of a dissemination seminar at Diani, 28-30th November 1990
Leiden: African Studies Center, Report ; no. 40 1991
D.W.J. Foeken; J.C. Hoorweg
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Economic and nutritional conditions at settlement schemes in Coast Province
Nairobi: Food and Nutrition Planning Unit, Ministry of Planning and National Development, Report ; report no. 36 1991
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer; D.W.J. Foeken; W. Okello; W. Veerman
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Intervention in child nutrition : evaluation studies in Kenya
London [etc.]: Kegan Paul International, Monographs from the African Studies Centre 1989
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer
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Seasonality in the coastal lowlands of Kenya : Part 2: Introduction to seasonality
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Report ; no. 28 1988
D.W.J. Foeken; J.C. Hoorweg
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Seasonality in the coastal lowlands of Kenya : Part 1: Research objectives and study design / Jan Hoorweg, Ted Kliest & Rudo Niemeijer
Leiden: African Studies Centre, FNSP report ; 27 1988
J.C. Hoorweg; T. Kliest; R. Niemeijer
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Nutritional aspects of rice cultivation in Nyanza Province, Kenya
Nairobi/Leiden: Ministry of Planning & National Development/African Studies Centre, 1985
R. Niemeijer; J.C. Hoorweg
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Nutrition survey in Murang'a District, Kenya : Part 2 : Nutritional cognition and the food consumption of pre-school children
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Research report ; 21 1984
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer; W. van Steenbergen
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Nutrition survey in Murang'a District, Kenya : Part 1 : Relations between ecology, economic and social conditions, and nutritional state of pre-school children
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Research report ; 19 1983
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer; W. van Steenbergen
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Sarvodaya/NOVIB Food Aid Programme. Report of an evaluation at the request of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement (Sri Lanka) and NOVIB (Netherlands)
Colombo/The Hague: 1982
T.S. Ruberu; J.C. Hoorweg
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The effects of nutrition rehabilitation at three Family Life Training Centres in Central Province, Kenya
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Research report ; 14 1982
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer
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The impact of nutrition education at three health centres in Central Province, Kenya
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Research report ; 10 1980
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer
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The nutritional impact of the Pre-School Health Programme at three clinics in Central Province, Kenya
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Research report ; 11 1980
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer
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Family life training centres, Kenya, 1978
Leiden [etc.]: Africa Study Centre [etc.], NIRP report ; no. 10 1979
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer
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Evaluation of nutrition education in Africa : community research in Uganda, 1971-1972
The Hague [etc.]: Mouton, Communications, ISSN 0065-4159 ; 6 1979
J.C. Hoorweg; I. McDowell
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Preferences of Kikuyu mothers for children's foods
Leiden [etc.]: African Studies Centre [etc.], NIRP report ; no. 8 1978
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer
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Classification of foods among the Kikuyu
Leiden [etc.]: African Studies Centre [etc.], NIRP report ; no. 7 1978
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer
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Report on the familiy life training centres, Bungoma, Busia, Kisumu, Kiambu and Murang'a
Leiden: African Studies Centre, 1977
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeyer
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A short dictionary of Kikuyu names of foods, meals and drinks
Nairobi [etc.]: University of Nairobi. Faculty of Education. Bureau of Educational Research [etc.], NIRP report ; no. 3 1977
J.C. Hoorweg; E. Githinji; R. Niemeijer
Nutrition intervention and environment : a research proposal to study different nutrition intervention programmes in different ecological environments
Leiden: African Studies Centre, 1976
J.C. Hoorweg; R. Niemeijer
Protein-energy malnutrition and intellectual abilities : a study of teen-age Ugandan children
The Hague [etc.]: Mouton, Communications, ISSN 0065-4159 ; 5 1976
J.C. Hoorweg
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The influence of malnutrition on psychological and neurological development : preliminary communication
[Mona: Pan American Health Organization], 1972
J.C. Hoorweg; J.P. Stanfield
Nutrition education in Uganda
Kampala: Makerere University, Department of Sociology, 1972
J.C. Hoorweg; I. McDowell
Gedachtenbepaling over psychologie en ontwikkelingslanden
Leiden, African Studies Centre 1968
J.C. Hoorweg
Sociaal psychologisch onderzoek bij de Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij
Leiden: Leiden University, Department of Social Psychology, 1966
J.C. Hoorweg
'Colonial memoirs'
In: W. E. A.van Beek; J.C.M. Damen; D.W.J. Foeken: 'The face of Africa: essays in honour of Ton Dietz', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.
'Introduction'
In: J.C. Hoorweg; N. Muthiga: 'Advances in coastal ecology : people, processes and ecosystems in Kenya', Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2009.
'Awareness of resource degradation among artisanal fisherman in Kilifio and Lamu'
In: J.C. Hoorweg; N. Muthiga: 'Recent advances in Coastal Ecology: Studies from Kenya', Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2003.
'The experience with land settlement'
'Kenya coast handbook. Culture, resources and development in the East African littoral', Hamburg [etc.]: Lit Verlag, 2000.
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'Conclusion: Culture, resources and development in the Kenya Coast'
'Kenya coast handbook. Culture, resources and development in the East African littoral', Hamburg [etc.]: Lit Verlag, 2000.
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'Dairy development'
'Kenya coast handbook. Culture, resources and development in the East African littoral', Hamburg [etc.]: Lit Verlag, 2000.
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'Introduction'
In: J.C. Hoorweg: 'Dunes, Groundwater, Mangroves and Birdlife in Coastal Kenya', Nairobi: ACTS, 1998.
'Introduction: environmental management, research and training in coast province, Kenya'
In: J.C. Hoorweg: 'Environmental management, research and training in coast province, Kenya', Eldoret: Moi University School of Environmental Studies, 1997.
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'Commercialization of rice and nutrition: a case from West Kenya'
In: J. von Braun; E. Kennedy: 'Agricultural commercialization, development and nutrition', Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1994.
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'Nutrition Intervention Research Project'
In: A.J. Jansen; V.J. Quinn: 'Food and Nutrition in Kenya : A Historical Review', Nairobi: UNICEF Regional Office, 1987.
'Some nutritional aspects of irrigated rice cultivation in Western Kenya'
In: G.M. Ruigu: 'Integration of Nutrition into Agricultural and Rural Development Projects: Proceedings of Inter-Country Seminar, Eldoret, 1985', Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, 1986.
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'The control of non-treatment variables : necessity or illusion?'
In: B. Schurch: 'Evaluation of Nutrition Education in Third World Communities', Bern: Hans Huber, 1983.
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'Intellectual abilities and protein-energy malnutrition : acute malnutrition VS. chronic undernutrition'
In: J. Brozek: 'Behavioral effects of energy and protein deficits', Washington: National Institutes of Health, NHI, 1979.
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'Africa : Psychology'
In: B.B. Wolman: 'International Encyclopaedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurology', New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977.
'Africa (south of the Sahara)'
In: V. Staudt Sexton; H. Misiak: 'Psychology around the world', Monterey [etc.]: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1976.
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'Evaluation of two nutrition rehabilitation clinics in Uganda'
In: D.B. Jelliffe; E.F.P. Jelliffe: 'Nutrition programmes for pre-school children', Zagreb: Institute of Public Health, 1973.
Artisanal fishers on the Kenyan coast : household livelihoods and marine resource management
J.C. Hoorweg; B. Wangila; A. Degen (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 14, 2009.
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Recent advances in coastal ecology : studies from Kenya
J.C. Hoorweg; N. Muthiga (editors)
Leiden: African Studies Centre, Research report ; 70 2003.
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Kenya Coast handbook : culture, resources and development in the East African littoral
J.C. Hoorweg; D.W.J. Foeken; R.A. Obudho (editors)
Hamburg [etc.]: Lit, 2000.
Dunes, groundwater, mangroves and birdlife in coastal Kenya
J.C. Hoorweg (editors)
Nairobi: African Centre for Technology Studies, Coastal ecology series 1998.
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Environmental management research and training in Coast Province, Kenya
J.C. Hoorweg (editors)
Nairobi: African Centre for Technology Studies, Coastal ecology series ; no.1 1997.
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FNSP-studies, 1985-1992 : results & recommendations
J.C. Hoorweg (editors)
Nairobi: Ministry of Planning and National Development, Report ; no. 50 1993.
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'Landjepik in Mau-forest'
in: De leunstoel, vol. 7, no. 5, 2009.
'De koloniale jeugd van Elspeth Huxley'
in: De leunstoel, vol. 2, no. 6, 2005.
'De woestijn leeft'
in: De leunstoel, vol. 2, no. 9, 2005.
'Kenia, een Afrikaanse provinciestad'
in: De leunstoel, vol. 1, no. 16, 2004.
'Kenia, toerisme en tweede huizen'
in: De leunstoel, vol. 1, no. 18, 2004.
'Nederlanders in Afrika'
in: De leunstoel, vol. 2, no. 4, 2004.
'Onder dieren'
in: De leunstoel, vol. 2, no. 5, 2004.
'De lieve vrede in Malindi'
in: De leunstoel, vol. 2, no. 1, 2004.
'Bedouin Households and Sheep Production in the Negev Desert, Israel'
in: Nomadic peoples, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 125 - 147, 2000.
'Nutrition in agricultural development: intensive dairy farming by rural smallholders'
in: Ecology of food and nutrition, vol. 39, pp. 395 - 416, 2000.
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'When households run out of fuel : responses of rural households to decreasing fuelwood availability, Ntcheu District, Malawi'
in: World development, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 255 - 266, 1997.
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'Household Fuel Use and Food Consumption: Relationship and seasonal effects in Central Malawi'
in: Ecology of food and nutrition, vol. 35, pp. 179 - 193, 1996.
'Nutrition in Agricultural Development : Land settlement in Coast Province, Kenya'
in: Ecology of food and nutrition, vol. 35, pp. 161 - 178, 1996.
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'Child nutrition in the pre-harvest season: food intake and nutritional status of pre-school children in Nyanza Province, Kenya'
in: East African Medical Journal, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 93 - 105, 1991.
'Nutrition in agricultural development : The case of irrigated rice cultivation in West Kenya'
in: Ecology of food and nutrition, vol. 22, pp. 65 - 81, 1988.
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'Impact evaluation of child nutrition programmes'
in: Food Policy, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 199 - 207, 1988.
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'Preliminary studies on some aspects of Kikuyu food habits'
in: Ecology of food and nutrition, vol. 9, pp. 139 - 150, 1980.
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'Environmental risk factors in outpatient recovery from malnutrition'
in: Ecology of food and nutrition, vol. 6, pp. 23 - 30, 1977.
'The effects of protein energy malnutrition in early childhood on intellectual and motor abilities in later childhood and adolescence'
in: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 330 - 350, 1976.
'The long-term effects of protein-energy malnutrition in early childhood on bone age, bone cortical thickness and height'
in: Acta Paediatrica Scandinavia, vol. 64, pp. 853 - 858, 1975.
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'Social environment and outpatient recovery from malnutrition'
in: Ecology of food and nutrition, vol. 4, pp. 91 - 101, 1975.
'Nutrition education in Uganda'
in: Kroniek van Afrika, vol. n.s., no. 2, pp. 185 - 197, 1974.
'Psychology in Africa : a bibliographical survey'
in: International Journal of Psychology, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 329 - 335, 1971.
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'Review of Dodge & P Wiebe : Crisis in Uganda : The breakdown of health services'
Development and change, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 361 - 362, 1987.