Erick Agure
Affiliations
  • 1. Transdisciplinary Research Area “Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Futures"
  • 2. Center for Development Research (ZEF)
  • 3. The Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bonn
Research topics
  • Climate change and health
  • Nutrition and Planetary Health (HEALTH)
  • Agriculture and food security
Erick Agure holds a master of Science in International Health from Heidelberg University (Germany) and BSc Public Health from Kenyatta University (Kenya). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Global Health at the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn. Agure’s PhD is embedded in the multi-center, randomized controlled trial “ALIMUS – We are feeding!” (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13063-022-06450-2 that aims to determine the effects of an integrated home gardening and nutrition counseling program on child nutritional status in rural Burkina Faso and Kenya. Agure’s PhD aims to determine horticultural biodiversity in home gardens and the relationship with dietary diversity and micronutrient status among young children in Siaya County, Kenya.
Selected publications

1.      “My home garden is a peace maker”: perceived impact pathways of a home gardening intervention in rural Kenya: the ALIMUS study; DOI: 10.1186/s41043-026-01263-4

2.      Using Mid-Upper Arm Circumference z-score (MUACz) tapes for community-based assessment and monitoring of nutrition risks among young children: a qualitative analysis of experiences and lessons from southwest Kenya; DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-26095-5

3.      Reduced rank regression-derived dietary patterns related to climate-sensitive micronutrients and their associations with child undernutrition among young children in rural Kenya: findings from the ALIMUS study; DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-26265-z

4.      Community-based interventions addressing multiple forms of malnutrition among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review; 

DOI: 10.1186/s12937-025-01136-2

5.      ‘Counselling is not just providing information’: perceptions of caregivers and stakeholders on the design of nutrition and health counselling interventions for families with young children in rural Kenya; DOI: 10.1186/s12913-024-10872-w

6.      Sustainable home gardens in Western Kenya: A qualitative study for co-designing nutrition-sensitive interventions; DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103132

7.      Home gardening in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review on practices and nutrition outcomes in rural Burkina Faso and Kenya; DOI: 10.1002/fes3.388

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