Miss Nozomi Kawarazuka
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Research Student | N dot Kawarazuka at uea dot ac dot uk |
Biography
I am a postgraduate research student, with special interest in gender, nutrition, and food security for the people dependent on fishery-based livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa.
Prior to joining in a PhD course at UEA in October 2010, I worked in the development field as a nutritionist, research assistant, field coordinator, or individual consultant in the projects related to nutrition, HIV/AIDS, health, and/or fisheries in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Philippines.
I have a BSc in Nutrition Sciences from the Kagawa Nutrition University (Japan) and an MA in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia.
Supervisors
Professor Janet Seeley and Dr Catherine Locke
Key Research Interests
My PhD research looks at gender relations in household food and nutrition security in the context of fishery-based livelihoods in the Lake Victoria region, Kenya.
Food and nutrition security for the people dependent on fishery-based livelihoods are challenges as the fisherfolk and migrants live in a high risk environment, facing various insecurities and uncertainties such as changes in fish/food market prices, declines of fish catches and a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS. In African inland fisheries, men and women have explicit gendered opportunities to access the fishery resources, and they play gendered roles in household food provisioning. Understanding household food and nutrition security through gender aspects is, therefore, important to develop appropriate policies and interventions.
The purpose of my research is to understand the mediating roles of gender relations through which cultural understandings of gender are reflected in the ways in which the fishery resources are distributed to fisherfolk and redistributed to the household members for maintaining food and nutrition security. I plan to conduct an ethnographic study in the lake shore community, and I explore marital and extra-marital relations around insecure production systems in fishery-based livelihoods, food allocation and consumption, and household strategies to cope with insecurities.
Publications
Kawarazuka, N. and Béné, C. (2011). The potential role of small fish species in improving micronutrient deficiencies in developing countries: building evidence, Public Health Nutrition, online first. DOI:10.1017/S1368980011000814
Kawarazuka, N. and Béné, C. (2010) Linking small-scale fisheries and aquaculture to household nutritional security: an overview. Food Security 2. 343-357.
