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Water, Food and Disease at the Intersection of Poverty and Development in Rural Africa  
FSI Stanford Seminar Series

Date and Time
May 10, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM


Speakers
Jenna Davis - Assistant professor, civil and environmental engineering; Higgins-Magid Fellow, Woods Institute
Eran Bendavid - Assistant professor, Department of Medicine
Rosamond L. Naylor - Director, FSE; Professor, Environmental Earth System Science; Associate Professor of Economics, by courtesy and William Wrigley Senior Fellow; FSI and Woods Institute Senior Fellow

Poverty stands prominently at the intersection of water scarcity, smallholder food production, and health in the world’s least developed regions. This project will measure the effects of poverty along the water-food-health nexus among rural households in Kenya, specifically, how differential access to domestic and productive water supplies, along with food security, and HIV and TB disease burden relate to changes in poverty over time among adults living in rural Kenyan households. Goals include measuring interactions between household productive and domestic water use, nutritional outcomes, infectious diseases, and poverty; and identifying  local interventions and policy responses that are likely to have positive spillover effects in any of these domains.

Location
Walter P. Falcon Lounge
Encina Hall, 5th floor
616 Serra St.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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FSI Contact
Elena Cryst



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