Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a devastating disease in a pastoral production system that can affect food production at the household level and in the markets given that over 80% of the pastoralist rely on food markets. Studies have assessed the economic impact of RVF but not on human nutrition.

We developed a theoretical framework which hypothesizes that RVF disease and its associated sanitary measures would affect the food environment directly or indirectly by limiting food access, increasing price, and therefore reducing availability and affordability. The overall outcome would be lower food security and diet quality hence poor nutrition outcomes of the affected communities.