Connecting agropastoral food culture research to livestock commercialisation policy

将农牧饮食文化研究与牲畜商业化政策联系起来

基本信息

批准号：
AH/V000144/1
负责人：
Imogen Bellwood-Howard
金额：
$ 21.71万
依托单位：
Institute of Development Studies
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV000144%2F1
关键词：
Connecting agropastoral food culture research

项目摘要

The context of the research.In both East and West Africa, pastoralism is an important livelihood activity. For groups such as the Fulani (West Africa) and Ilchamus (East Africa), it is an ethnoprofessional activity, sometimes combined with agriculture in agropastoralism. For many groups, pastoralism or agropastoralism entails a unique culture, many aspects of which are connected to food production, processing, exchange and consumption activities. Anthropological research has focused on agropastoralist food cultures, for example describing how cultures and practices of food production, processing, trade and consumption have adapted as pastoralist people have engaged over centuries with local and international markets, in global contexts of technological change.In recent decades, agropastoralist livelihoods have continued to change, in the context of continent-wide agricultural policy favouring commercialisation, modernisation and formalisation of the agricultural and livestock sectors. There is a noticeable disconnect between many policies dealing with livestock sector commercialisation and modernisation, and research on agropastoralist food culture, despite the practices of production and consumption which connect them. For example, proposed commercialisation of the dairy sector is sometimes difficult to connect to gendered associations of milk trade in the cultures of people such as the Fulani. The results is that pastoralist people, and specific groups such as women or those of given ethnicities, may not fully benefit from livestock sector development, or may even be disadvantaged. So, there is a need to draw connections between research on food cultures of pastoralism and development oriented policy on the livestock sector in Africa.The aims and objectives of the work.This exploratory research aims to define a new research agenda for connecting policy on livestock sector development to research on agropastoralist food cultures. The project convenes a group of relevant stakeholders - policy makers and implementers, researchers, development actors, and local community representatives - from East and West Africa. Together, they co-construct understandings of agropastoral food cultures, through participatory photography and desk research on a case study of milk and the dairy sector. The results are shared in a seminar modelled on the local meeting forum, the Baraza. A Baraza entails community members and representatives, opinion leaders, policy actors and other relevant parties convening to debate issues such as policy moves, usually in a public place such as a market. Through a Baraza style seminar, the project aims to encourage these groups to work more closely together to incorporate community perspectives, and research on them, into policy making and implementation. Key messages are then shared to the wider community and policy sector. This aims to define a clearer agenda and raise support for follow-up research.The potential applications and benefits or the research.The short term benefit of this work is that awareness will be raised, among all groups, of the gaps that exist between research on agropastoralist food cultures, and policy approaches to livestock sector commercialisation. Community members will enhance their abilities to advocate to policy makers, and within their communities. In the medium term, policy makers will be more cognisant of how to work with research and consider culture, and researchers will have a better understanding of how to engage with policy actors on this theme. In the longer term, there may be more relevant and culturally informed policy on livestock sector commercialisation, leading to better outcomes for pastoralists.

研究背景。在东非和西非，畜牧业都是一项重要的生计活动。对于富拉尼人（西非）和伊查姆斯人（东非）等群体来说，这是一种民族职业活动，有时与农牧业中的农业相结合。对于许多群体来说，畜牧业或农牧业蕴含着独特的文化，其许多方面都与粮食生产、加工、交换和消费活动有关。人类学研究的重点是农牧民的饮食文化，例如，描述了在全球技术变革的背景下，随着牧民几个世纪以来与当地和国际市场的接触，食品生产、加工、贸易和消费的文化和实践如何适应。在全大陆农业政策有利于农业和畜牧业商业化、现代化和正规化的背景下，农牧民的生计继续发生变化。尽管生产和消费实践将它们联系在一起，但许多涉及畜牧业商业化和现代化的政策与农牧民饮食文化研究之间存在明显的脱节。例如，拟议的乳制品行业商业化有时很难与富拉尼等民族文化中的性别牛奶贸易协会联系起来。结果是，牧民以及妇女或特定种族等特定群体可能无法从畜牧业发展中充分受益，甚至可能处于不利地位。因此，有必要将畜牧业饮食文化研究与非洲畜牧业发展导向政策之间建立联系。这项工作的目的和目标。这项探索性研究旨在确定一个新的研究议程，以连接畜牧业政策部门发展以研究农牧民饮食文化。该项目召集了一组来自东非和西非的相关利益相关者——政策制定者和实施者、研究人员、发展参与者和当地社区代表。他们通过参与式摄影和对牛奶和乳制品行业案例研究的案头研究，共同构建对农牧饮食文化的理解。结果在模仿当地会议论坛 Baraza 的研讨会上分享。 Baraza 需要社区成员和代表、意见领袖、政策参与者和其他相关方聚集在一起讨论政策举措等问题，通常在市场等公共场所进行。通过巴拉扎式研讨会，该项目旨在鼓励这些团体更紧密地合作，将社区观点及其研究纳入政策制定和实施。然后，关键信息将分享给更广泛的社区和政策部门。目的是确定更明确的议程并提高对后续研究的支持。研究的潜在应用和好处。这项工作的短期好处是，将提高所有群体对研究之间存在的差距的认识农牧民饮食文化和畜牧业商业化的政策方法。社区成员将增强向政策制定者和社区内倡导的能力。从中期来看，政策制定者将更加了解如何与研究合作并考虑文化，研究人员将更好地理解如何与政策参与者就这一主题进行互动。从长远来看，畜牧业商业化可能会出台更相关、更符合文化的政策，从而为牧民带来更好的结果。