Date: 9 February 2024 

Time: 13:30 to 15:00 (GMT+1)

More information: https://www.wur.nl/en/calendar-1/show-1/everyday-aquatic-food-system-transformations-in-myanmar.htm

Context:

Current approaches to understanding food system transformations have generally focused on particular processes or actors. When it comes to aquatic food systems, most of the emphasis has been on the technological shift in production, that is, the intensification and expansion of aquaculture. Given these limitations, this thesis set out to advance a sociological understanding of food system transformations by considering and interrelating associated routinized food practices in everyday Myanmar.

Overall, this thesis argues that food systems are dynamic, interconnected social systems and that their transformative processes are best understood by characterizing the effective relations among consumption trade, and production practices as well as their embeddedness in everyday life. Such theorization opens up new ways not only for understanding food systems transformations, but also for steering them towards the realization of wider normative ambitions such as food and nutrition security, social equity, and environmental sustainability.

WorldFish Participation:

Xavier Tezzo was a WorldFish staff, based in Myanmar, to which WorldFish met the costs of his important PhD work on 'Everyday aquatic food system transformations in Myanmar.'

Check out the publication: https://www.globalacademicpress.com/ebooks/xavier_tezzo/

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