Food, power and agency: revealing local post-harvest fisheries practices to improve food access from small-scale fisheries in coastal Kenya.

Maritime studies : MAST Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-29 DOI:10.1007/s40152-025-00402-7
Antonio Allegretti, Johnstone O Omukoto, Christina C Hicks
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This article proposes the case of Kenyan coastal fisheries as a potentially crucial reservoir of food-related benefits for the marginalised and those living in poverty, but where a food-centred lens or approach is seldom mainstreamed in local and national governance. Borrowing insights from post-structuralist marine social sciences, this article presents an ethnographic account of grassroots practices in-the-making such as handling, sorting, and allocating fish once caught, and how these practices lead to local categorisations and classifications of fish. This sort of evidence and knowledge around local categorisations and classifications of fish spotlights the importance of considering the post-harvest sector (as opposed to the activity of fishing alone), that is, how the use of catch determines access through micro relations of power and agency. Through the analysis of two different locations of Watamu and Shimoni in terms of the fisheries economy and overall development, the analysis of these categories and classifications highlights the necessity to account for a fairer access and distribution rather than solely production (of fish) that is overly market-oriented.

粮食、权力和机构:揭示当地收获后渔业实践,以改善肯尼亚沿海小规模渔业的粮食获取。
这篇文章提出了肯尼亚沿海渔业的案例,作为边缘化和生活在贫困中的人潜在的粮食相关利益的重要储备,但在地方和国家治理中,以粮食为中心的镜头或方法很少被主流化。借鉴后结构主义海洋社会科学的见解,本文介绍了一种民族志的方法,描述了基层的做法,如处理、分类和分配捕获的鱼,以及这些做法如何导致当地的鱼类分类和分类。这种关于当地鱼类分类和分类的证据和知识突出了考虑捕捞后部门(而不是单独的捕捞活动)的重要性,也就是说,捕捞的使用如何通过权力和机构的微观关系决定获取。通过对Watamu和Shimoni两个不同地点的渔业经济和整体发展的分析,对这些类别和分类的分析突出了考虑更公平的获取和分配的必要性,而不仅仅是过度以市场为导向的(鱼类)生产。
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