Source: Wet market biosecurity reform: Three social narratives influence stakeholder responses in Vietnam, Kenya,
and the Philippines | PLOS Global Public Health
Wet Market Biosecurity Reform: Three Social Narratives Influence Stakeholder
Response in Vietnam, Kenya, and The Philippines
This research is about the previous pandemic happened in 2019, which is the COVID 19,
where in the researchers conducted a qualitative study in 2021 in three countries
(Kenya, Vietnam, and the Philippines. According to the authors, they found no evidence
that the rhetoric pandemic spillover that emerged in 2020 had any influence on policy
or reform efforts apart from those related to COVID 19 infection control.
In the middle part of this research, they identified three main narratives that frame the
problem of biosecurity and preferences for reform. First is “Human health narrative”,
second is “Modernization narrative”, and third is the narrative centered in “Local
livelihoods”.
The author then concluded, that wet market biosecurity strategies occur in the context
of three contrasting narratives that emphasizes three contrasting narratives that
emphasize different aspects of health and risk, and it also reflected different worldviews
and interests. This research also showed that there is a need for local government to
strengthen market management and biosecurity in ways that enhance the agency of
market stakeholders and strengthen local livelihoods and food security as a part of
pluralistic and democratic politics.
