Activity-specific mobility of adults in a rural region of western Kenya.

This study used both an activity-specific survey and GPS trackers to evaluate how adults accessed local resources

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
19 April 2020
Country:
Kenya
Document Type:
Journal Article
Theme:
Agriculture
Authors:
Floyd, J, Ogola, J, Fevre, E, Wardrop, N, Tatem, A, Ruktanonchai, N

Abstract

Improving rural household access to resources such as markets, schools and healthcare can help alleviate poverty in low-income settings. Current models of geographic accessibility to various resources rarely take individual variation into account due to a lack of appropriate data, yet understanding mobility at an individual level is key to knowing how people access their local resources. Our study used both an activity-specific survey and GPS trackers to evaluate how adults in a rural area of western Kenya accessed local resources.

This is a publication arising from the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme.

Citation

Floyd J, Ogola J, Fèvre E, Wardrop N, Tatem A, Ruktanonchai N (2020). Activity-specific mobility of adults in a rural region of western Kenya. PeerJ. 8:e8798.

Activity-specific mobility of adults in a rural region of western Kenya

Published 19 April 2020
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