Food Safety Knowledge and Practices of Peri-Urban Broiler Farmers in Kenya

Anonymized data from 157,534 records captures the food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices of smallholder poultry farmers in Kenya. The dataset includes demographic characteristics and variables related to on-farm handling, processing, and hygiene. It supports analyses of behavioral risk factors within informal poultry production systems.

Use Cases

• Assessing correlations between farmer demographics and food safety practices.
• Modeling risk factors for foodborne pathogen contamination in informal supply chains.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of food safety knowledge dissemination in peri-urban settings.
• Profiling on-farm handling and hygiene behaviors among smallholder broiler farmers.

Strengths

• Contains a substantial 157,534 records, providing a significant sample for analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and sharing.
• Focuses on a specific and understudied context: peri-urban smallholder broiler farms in Kenya.

Limitations

• Column names and a precise row count are not provided, limiting understanding of the data structure.
• The listed last update date of 2026-03 24 is in the future, creating uncertainty about the dataset's actual currency.

Provenance

Source

Angela Mwangi

Collection Method

Anonymized data collected from smallholder poultry farms.

Time Range

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Freshness

2026-03-24 05:12:11

Geography

Kenya, peri-urban areas