School farming and school feeding in Nakuru, Kenya

Although urban agriculture has become an increasingly important topic among researchers and policy-makers, school farming in urban areas has been largely neglected to date. This is surprising as, in combination with a school feeding programme, school farming has the potential to alleviate hunger, increase children’s attendance rates at school and help them to develop sound eating habits. The study’s main objectives are to describe the practice of school farming, establish the contribution of school farming to school feeding programmes, determine the extent to which pupils benefit from school farming and school feeding programmes in terms of food security and school attendance, and assess the potential for school farming in combination with school feeding