Wijnand Klaver (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Submitted:   Tues, April 26, 2011


Ir. Wijnand Klaver
Afrika-Studiecentrum
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

phone:   +31-71-5276604
fax:     +31-71-5273344
e-mail:  klaver@ascleiden.nl


Afrika-Studiecentrum Web site: http://www.ascleiden.nl


Mr. Wijnand Klaver works as a researcher on food and nutrition issues, 
with a particular interest in the assessment of child growth in relation 
to seasonality. He is currently involved in a research project on urban 
agriculture in relation to household nutrition security in Nakuru, Kenya.


Selected publications:

With D.W.J. Foeken, S.O. Owuor, and A.M. Mwangi
"Market forces threatening school feeding: the case for school farming in 
Nakuru town, Kenya,"  In: M. Dekker and R.A. van Dijk (eds.) Markets 
of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa. Leiden: Brill 
publishers, 2010.

With R.N.M. Mwadime
"Food consumption and nutrition,"  In: Kenya coast handbook. Culture, 
resources and development in the East African littoral.  Hamburg: Lit Verlag,
pp. 279-300, 2000.

Food consumption and nutrition in the Kenya Coast. ASC Working Paper , vol.
31. 1998.
 
With Dick Foeken & Jan Hoorweg
Seasons and nutrition at the Kenya Coast.  ASC Research Series, 
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1995.