Social embeddedness of pig value chains in Myanmar and its implications for food and nutrition security.
Social embeddedness of pig value chains in Myanmar and its implications for food and nutrition security.
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10.1007/s12571-022-01278-9
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发表时间：
2022
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影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Ebata, Ayako
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Ebata, Ayako
农业中间商--贸易商和中间人/妇女--在低收入和中等收入国家的粮食安全方面发挥着关键作用。然而，它们在改善或破坏食品安全这一食品质量指标方面的作用还没有得到很好的理解。随着中产阶级对高质量、易腐烂、营养丰富的农产品的需求日益增加，食品安全已成为LMICs的一个重要问题。现有文献对中介机构是否以及如何管理关于低收入国家食品安全的信息提供了有限的见解。本文在对缅甸生猪价值链进行深入定性研究的基础上，填补了这一空白。我们的文件表明，中介机构基于错综复杂的社会经济关系将农民与买家联系起来，从而帮助降低了贸易的交易成本。虽然我们没有发现中介机构主动隐瞒猪产品无形(即微生物或化学)性质的事实的证据，但它们为出售生病的动物提供了便利。另一方面，中介机构隐瞒了有关潜在买家和卖家的信息，以维持他们在价值链上的作用。为了改善低收入国家的食品安全，政策需要减少贸易的交易成本以及获得公共卫生专门知识的机会。
Agricultural intermediaries – traders and middlemen/women – play a critical role for food security in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Yet, their role in improving or undermining food safety, an indicator for food quality, is not well understood. As middle-class citizens increasingly demand high-quality perishable and nutritious produce, food safety has become an important issue in LMICs. The existing literature offers limited insights as to whether and, if so, how intermediaries manage information regarding food safety in LMICs. This article fills this gap based on an in-depth qualitative study on pig value chains in Myanmar. We document that intermediaries helped reduce transaction costs of trade by linking farmers to buyers based on an intricate socio-economic relationship. While we find no evidence of intermediaries actively concealing facts about invisible (i.e. microbiological or chemical) nature of pig products, they facilitated selling sick animals. On the other hand, intermediaries withheld information about potential buyers and sellers in order to maintain their role along the value chains. In order to improve food safety in LMICs, policies need to reduce transaction costs of trade as well as access to public health expertise.
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