Urban consumption of meat and milk and its green and blue water footprints—Patterns in the 1980s and 2000s for Nairobi, Kenya

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 579, Issue , 2017, Pages 786-796

  Bosire, Caroline K ^a,b   Lannerstad, Mats ^b   de Leeuw, Jan ^c   Krol, Maarten S ^a   Ogutu, Joseph O ^d   Ochungo, Pamela A ^b   Hoekstra, Arjen Y ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Consumption; Income; Kenya; Meat and milk; Nairobi; Water footprint

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; POPULATION STATISTICS; WATER RESOURCES;

CONSUMPTION; INCOME; KENYA; NAIROBI; WATER FOOTPRINT;

MEATS;

FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER; RAIN; SURFACE WATER;

FOOD CONSUMPTION; INCOME; MEAT; MILK; POLICY ANALYSIS; WATER FOOTPRINT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CROP PRODUCTION; HUMAN; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; MEAT; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; MILK; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER SUPPLY; ANIMAL; CATERING SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TRENDS;

KENYA; NAIROBI [KENYA]; NAIROBI [NAIROBI (CNT)];

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; KENYA; MEAT; MILK; URBANIZATION; WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 85006832805     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.027     Document Type: Article

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