scholarly journals Traditional Products and New Developments in the Restaurant Sector in East Africa. The Case Study of Nakuru County, Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dauro M. Zocchi ◽  
Michele F. Fontefrancesco
Keyword(s):  
Local Food ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Leafy Vegetables ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Traditional Foods ◽  
Indigenous Chicken

Over the last 20 years, we have witnessed worldwide a renewed interest in local food products and traditional cuisine. Addressing this demand, the catering industry has played a pivotal role in reviving local food heritage and traditions. While several studies have explored the evolution of this trend in Europe, little attention has been given to this phenomenon in contemporary Africa. To partially fill this gap in the literature, we conducted an ethnographic study to investigate the role of the catering sector in recovering and promoting food and gastronomic heritage in Nakuru County, an emerging Kenyan agricultural and tourist hub. Specifically, we aimed at understanding the main drivers behind the offering and demand for traditional ingredients and recipes. Fieldwork was conducted through the analysis of 41 restaurants and hotels, and data collection was completed through semi-structured interviews with 51 professionals, including owners, food and beverage managers, and chefs. We reported 33 recipes and ingredients tied to Kenyan culinary traditions. Some differences in the role of Kenyan cuisine emerged, with the differentiation mostly linked to the customer profiles. In particular, attention toward traditional foods was more accentuated in restaurants aimed at middle- and high-income Kenyan customers and for specific products namely African leafy vegetables and indigenous chicken, locally known as kuku kienyeji. Concurrently, we discovered that the inclusion of these products on the restaurant menus implied an incipient localization of the food supply chains based on self-production or direct commercial relationships with small-scale producers. The research highlighted how the relaunch of traditional food and cuisine develops from a demand for healthy and natural products rather than a search for cultural authenticity. Based on the specificities of the local market, this fosters the creation of alternative supply strategies to cope with the poor quality of ingredients, price fluctuations, and discontinuity of the supply. In this sense, the research suggests also considering tangible factors linked to the technological and logistical conditions of the trade and safety of food to understand the drivers behind the rediscovery of local and traditional foods.

scholarly journals Innovation Networks: A Tool for Food-Culture Preservation and Sustainability in the Era of Globalization

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Baghdadi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Innovation Network ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
The Impact

The growing exposure to globalization, since 1990s, has initiated some significant alterations to the Lebanese economy, society, and culture. For the last two decades, it has been observed that international cuisines and eccentric menu items have been invading the local market and taking over ethnic and traditional cuisines, what threatens, if this trend continues, the identity of traditional cuisine and, consequently, the sustainability of local food culture. Departing from the case of Lebanon, this paper studies the impact of globalization on traditional cuisine and highlights the role of networks in sustaining local food culture. The findings of our empirical study revealed the necessity to modernize the traditional cuisine through a coordinated set of heterogeneous and professional actors who collectively take part in the process. The ability of these actors to innovate is found related to the organizational conditions of the networks to which they belong, and to the ability of these networks for innovation, what refers us to the concept of “innovation network” that we are proposing, through this study, as a solution to the dilemma of food - culture preservation and sustainability.

Further Notes on Record Taking and Making in Maternity Care: The Case of South Asian Descent Women

1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isobel Bowler
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Maternity Care ◽  
Antenatal Clinic ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
Asian Descent

This paper draws on data from a small-scale ethnographic study of the delivery of maternity care to South Asian descent women in a hospital in Southern England during 1988. Stereotyped views of these women which related to their customs and culture as well as their typification as patients were commonly expressed by staff, particularly midwives. The paper examines the role of medical records and record making in stereotyping Asian women: the ways in which stereotyped views of women may affect the record making process; and how that process itself may reinforce and create stereotypes. The utility of records for ‘rate production’ purposes is also discussed. The focus of the paper is the creation of a woman's maternity records which occurs in the antenatal clinic. The transformation of stigmatised views of a client into ‘facts’ about a client is common among bureaucrats, in this setting health service staff. This process affects the client's future encounters with the bureaucracy. In medical settings records (ie the case notes) help to create, transmit and reify negative stereotypes of health service users. These stereotypes can affect the kind of care given to individual patients.

scholarly journals Building a safety buffer for European food security: the role of small-scale food production and local ecological and gastronomic knowledge in light of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Renata Sõukand ◽  
Raivo Kalle ◽  
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco ◽  
Andrea Pieroni
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
Community Based ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Safe Food

The lockdown caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created a situation in which food availability is affected not only by the availability of money but also by the availability of food itself. On the basis of five pillars, including 1) supporting community-based farming, 2) defending small firms, 3) developing narratives on the high value of local food,4) encouraging subsistence gardening and foraging in the wild, and 5) promoting local ecological and gastronomic knowledge, the article points a way forward to attain greater sustainability and resilience of safe food chains that starts with reassessing the relevance of local food systems.

SOME DETERMINANTS OF DISTRIBUTION PROCESSES OF LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTS IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE PODKARPACIE FOOD MARKET

2018 ◽  
Vol XX (3) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Karol Krajewski ◽  
Maciej Kuboń ◽  
Monika Świątkowska ◽  
Ewa Świstak
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Distribution Channels ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities

The article concerns restrictions and development of the distribution processes of local food products produced in the Podkarpacie region against the background of the food market and consumption. The market situation of local products in relation to the conditions of distribution processes was characterized and the barriers and opportunities for development of these processes in the region were diagnosed. The pilot studies presented the opinions of enterprises, participants of distribution channels of local food products, on the difficulty of distributing these products. The research was carried out in 2017, and empirical data was obtained by direct interview with entrepreneurs who distribute local food in Podkarpacie. Respondents indicated that despite the high assessment of local products offered by consumers and the development of the food market, there are still difficulties in distributing the products offered beyond the local market, and the barriers are small scale of production, lack of standardization and limitations in product logistics.

scholarly journals Safeguarding and personal budgets: the experiences of adults at risk

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Fiona Aspinal ◽  
Martin Stevens ◽  
Jill Manthorpe ◽  
John Woolham ◽  
Kritika Samsi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Care ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from one element of a study exploring the relationship between personalisation, in the form of personal budgets (PBs) for publicly funded social care and safeguarding. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 people receiving PBs who had recently been the focus of a safeguarding investigation. Participants were recruited from two English local authority areas and data were subject to thematic analysis. Findings The analysis identified three main themes: levels of information and awareness; safeguarding concerns and processes; and choice and control. Many of the participants in this small study described having experienced multiple forms of abuse or neglect concurrently or repeatedly over time. Research limitations/implications This was a small scale, qualitative study, taking place in two local authorities. The small number of participants may have had strong opinions which may or may not have been typical. However, the study provides some rich data on people’s experiences. Practical implications The findings suggest that adults receiving PBs may need information on an ongoing and repeated basis together with advice on how to identify and address poor quality care that they are arranging for themselves. Practitioners need to be aware of the influence of the level of information received and the interaction of organisational or legal requirements when responding to safeguarding concerns when care being supplied tries to reflect the benefits of choice and control. Originality/value This paper reports original research asking adults with care and support needs about the interaction between two key policies of safeguarding and personalisation.

Friends as Informal Educators: The Role of Peer Relationships in Promotion of Sexual Health Services among College Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 0272684X2110346
Author(s):  
Veena Muraleetharan ◽  
Marie A. Brault
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Informal Educators ◽  
The Impact

This ethnographic study of one United States university’s sexual health resources explores the role of peer relationships in sexual health promotion to understand how these relationships shaped students’ interactions with campus sexual health resources. Through analysis of seventeen semi-structured interviews with students, five policy interviews with providers and university personnel, and participant-observation of peer health educator training, the authors examine how trust in peer relationships can serve as a form of social capital to influence sexual health information sharing. The article introduces the term “peer administrator” to describe student actors who sit at the intersection of friend and official resource and explores the importance of these mentoring relationships for sexual health promotion. The analysis also considers how more individualistic models of public health promotion limit the impact of peer relationships and concludes with a discussion of how universities might imagine new forms of sexual health promotion among students.

scholarly journals Struggling to fit the white coat and the role of contextual factors within a hospital organisation - an ethnographic study on the first months as newly graduated doctors

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tine Lass Klitgaard ◽  
Diana Stentoft ◽  
Mads Skipper ◽  
Mette Grønkjær ◽  
Susanne Backman Nøhr
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
White Coat ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Cultural Historical Activity

Abstract Background Despite increased focus on improving the transition from being a medical student to working as a junior doctor, many newly graduated doctors (NGD) report the process of fitting the white coat as stressful, and burnout levels indicate that they might face bigger challenges than they can handle. During this period, the NGDs are in a process of learning how to be doctors, and this takes place in an organisation where the workflow and different priorities set the scene. However, little is known about how the hospital organisation influences this process. Thus, we aimed to explore how the NGDs experience their first months of work in order to understand 1) which struggles they are facing, and 2) which contextual factors within the hospital organisation that might be essential in this transition. Methods An ethnographic study was conducted at a university hospital in Denmark including 135 h of participant observations of the NGDs (n = 11). Six semi-structured interviews (four group interviews and two individual interviews) were conducted (n = 21). The analysis was divided into two steps: Firstly, we carried out a “close-to-data” analysis with focus on the struggles faced by the NGDs. Secondly, we reviewed the struggles by using the theoretical lens of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) to help us explore, which contextual factors within the hospital organisation that seem to have an impact on the NGDs’ experiences. Results The NGDs’ struggles fall into four themes: Responsibility, local knowhow, time management and collaborators. By using the CHAT lens, we were able to identify significant contextual factors, including a physically remote placement, a missing overlap between new and experienced NGDs, a time limited introduction period, and the affiliation to several departments. These struggles and factors were highly intertwined and influenced by one another. Conclusion Contextual factors within the hospital organisation may aggravate the struggles experienced by the NGDs, and this study points to possible elements that could be addressed to make the transition less challenging and overwhelming.

scholarly journals Manifestations of Economic Resilience in Hospitals: What do managers say?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Jabbari ◽  
Farzaneh Mohammadi ◽  
Laleh Heidari
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Economic Austerity ◽  
Domestic Products

  Introduction: The area of healthcare requires crucial measures in the area of economic resilience. Regarding the important role of hospital managers in reaching the healthcare goals and realizing instances of the economic resilience in hospitals, the present study was conducted. The aim was to explore the perception of educational and healthcare centers’ managers in Isfahan regarding the concept and instances of economic resilience in hospitals. Method: The data needed for this qualitative descriptive exploratory study were collected using semi structured interviews With 11 managers of educational and medical centers in Isfahan. Thematic analysis was used for the analysis. Result: The concept of economic resilience included supporting domestic products, productivity, optimal use of resources, economy in consumption, strategic purchase, difference between economic resilience and economic austerity, and moving away from a mono-product oil-based economy. The basic components in instances of economic resilience included: drugs and equipment, human resources, financial management, installation and hoteling, consumption management, management and leadership, and information technology. Conclusion: Due to the lack of a comprehensive definition about the concept of economic resilience from the participants' perspective, the goals of the economic resilience would not be achieved unless the executive authorities in large or small scale administration level conform to the ideas mentioned by the Supreme Leader of Iran.

scholarly journals Building a safety buffer for European food security: the role of small-scale food production and local ecological and gastronomic knowledge in light of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Renata Sõukand ◽  
Raivo Kalle ◽  
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco ◽  
Andrea Pieroni
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
Community Based ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Safe Food

The lockdown caused by the coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) has created a situation in which food availability is affected not only by the availability of money but also by the availability of food itself. On the basis of five pillars, including 1) supporting community-based farming, 2) defending small firms, 3) developing narratives on the high value of local food, 4) encouraging subsistence gardening and foraging in the wild, and 5) promoting local ecological and gastronomic knowledge, the essay points a way forward to attain greater sustainability and resilience of safe food chains that starts with reassessing the relevance of local food systems.

scholarly journals The role of communication technology in fighting administrative corruption

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Ahmed Hamagharib Omar Bali
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Tools And Techniques

This research aimed to identify the most important technological tools and techniques, have been introduced in the Iraqi Kurdistan organizations, comparing to the organizations that still rely on a manual system. This research claimed that the technological tools and techniques, apart from its role to activate communication between department employees and their clients, have an active participant in fighting corruption, reducing nepotism, and favoritism. This research relied on qualitative approach through conduction semi-structured interviews and participant observation as a data collection tools, and it also analyze the data under taken by thematic analysis representing the main tools and methods of ethnographic study. The research found that the communication technology machine and tools have a great role in the administrative services and fighting corruption, nevertheless, they have not been used in Kurdistan as required. The majority of respondents suggested to expand using technological machines and tools in all departments, as there are no big obstacles of introducing them even amongst who do not have technology skills.

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