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Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7113-2014
Abstract There is relatively scarce data about milk traders in the Global South. In Kenya, small-scale mobile milk traders play a vital role for food sovereignty by connecting remote rural and peri-urban dairy farmers with low-income urban consumers. However, these traders are often accused of selling milk of low quality. This study, from 2014 to 2020, aims to offer insights into the lives of mobile milk traders and how they are challenged by newly introduced milk regulations despite their context-specific knowledge to ensure affordable quality milk. Specifically, this research shows how mobile milk traders’ run their businesses and how regulations regarding milk handling and transport determine who can and who can not continue a livelihood in the dairy sector and who can and can not afford to buy milk.
Highlights Milk handling and transport regulations are not simply a neutral technical issue. Such regulations determine who can and can not continue a dairy-based livelihood. Limiting small-scale milk transporters has implications for food sovereignty. This Kenyan example illustrates tensions in Global South agri-food systems.
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7113-2014
Abstract There is relatively scarce data about milk traders in the Global South. In Kenya, small-scale mobile milk traders play a vital role for food sovereignty by connecting remote rural and peri-urban dairy farmers with low-income urban consumers. However, these traders are often accused of selling milk of low quality. This study, from 2014 to 2020, aims to offer insights into the lives of mobile milk traders and how they are challenged by newly introduced milk regulations despite their context-specific knowledge to ensure affordable quality milk. Specifically, this research shows how mobile milk traders’ run their businesses and how regulations regarding milk handling and transport determine who can and who can not continue a livelihood in the dairy sector and who can and can not afford to buy milk.
Highlights Milk handling and transport regulations are not simply a neutral technical issue. Such regulations determine who can and can not continue a dairy-based livelihood. Limiting small-scale milk transporters has implications for food sovereignty. This Kenyan example illustrates tensions in Global South agri-food systems.
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7113-2014
Abstract There is relatively scarce data about milk traders in the Global South. In Kenya, small-scale mobile milk traders play a vital role for food sovereignty by connecting remote rural and peri-urban dairy farmers with low-income urban consumers. However, these traders are often accused of selling milk of low quality. This study, from 2014 to 2020, aims to offer insights into the lives of mobile milk traders and how they are challenged by newly introduced milk regulations despite their context-specific knowledge to ensure affordable quality milk. Specifically, this research shows how mobile milk traders’ run their businesses and how regulations regarding milk handling and transport determine who can and who can not continue a livelihood in the dairy sector and who can and can not afford to buy milk.
Highlights Milk handling and transport regulations are not simply a neutral technical issue. Such regulations determine who can and can not continue a dairy-based livelihood. Limiting small-scale milk transporters has implications for food sovereignty. This Kenyan example illustrates tensions in Global South agri-food systems.
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers
Lelea, Margareta Amy (author) / Emden, Anne (author) / Kaufmann, Brigitte (author)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 100
2023-05-05
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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