果冻影院

The 聽is investigating the effects of close interactions between people and animals in urban and peri-urban Nairobi on the spread of pathogens such as聽Escherichia coli,聽Campylobacter聽and聽Salmonella,聽which can infect both humans and animals. According to the Principal Investigator of the project, Professor Eric F猫vre聽of the University of Liverpool, UK - who is based at ILRI in Nairobi, where most of the project staffs are also based - 鈥渢he way you design your city and the way you structure your food system can play into a policy to prevent disease emergence; the project is redrawing the map of Nairobi, not based on geography but on the connectedness of animal and human populations, in terms of the bacteria that they share鈥�.

The project has received substantial media coverage, which included a 聽and a .

The work of the research partners in charge of the 'planning and social science thread' of the project, the聽DPU and CEGE at 果冻影院 and IIED, is underpinned by an observation that the introduction of these pathogens is linked with inadequate unsafe water supply, sanitation and solid waste arrangements entrenched聽in the low income informal settlements of Nairobi, where more than 60% of its residents live. Such lack of essential infrastructural lifelines provides space for endemic conditions, exposure pathways and risks for many communicable diseases, including the microbial diversity the project is focusing on.聽

Within this context, DPU joined forces with our project partners in Nairobi, ILRI, APHRC and Munganno wa Wanavijiji Trust to gather community led evidence on what food are sold in five informal settlements and how food vending sites are exposed to those multiple pathogen transmission pathways. Balloon-mapping and other novel mapping techniques have been used in combination with focus group discussions to explore vendors鈥� practices, challenges, and opportunities for promoting food safety. We are also mapping the location relative to waterways of informal settlements, as well as producing an institutional map of relevant city-wide and national institutions, actors, norms, practices, interactions, their (in) adequacies and complexities around infrastructure provision (water, sanitation and solid waste management) that promotes and perpetuates such entrenching pathogenic conditions in many parts of Nairobi, which has its historical roots in colonial times. In addition, the DPU have been capturing perceptions of planners and scholars on聽how historical and current city/regional development patterns and processes might be influencing livestock production spaces and their typologies in and around the city.