This is only from my own personal interest in anthropology in international development although it might be useful to more people: How can an ethnography be helpful to work on reducing lead exposure? More specifically, I am interested in work that might be valuable to policy makers, NGOs and possibly others in Bangladesh and even more specifically related to how lead ends up in food (broadly defined, I think lead in water might count as lead in food). There is this recent forum post on lead in turmeric in Bangladesh, but perhaps there are other places lead shows up too? This ethnography can take place in any part of Bangladeshi society, from the farmers or distributers who might or might not adulterate the food or farm on contaminated soil to policy makers and their ability/inability to enforce legislation. I am thinking it might be helpful to especially an organization working on policy to understand the various ways different actors have opportunities or perceive constraints from taking action so they can target their scare resources to either leveraging opportunities or overcoming obstacles.
This is only from my own personal interest in anthropology in international development although it might be useful to more people: How can an ethnography be helpful to work on reducing lead exposure? More specifically, I am interested in work that might be valuable to policy makers, NGOs and possibly others in Bangladesh and even more specifically related to how lead ends up in food (broadly defined, I think lead in water might count as lead in food). There is this recent forum post on lead in turmeric in Bangladesh, but perhaps there are other places lead shows up too? This ethnography can take place in any part of Bangladeshi society, from the farmers or distributers who might or might not adulterate the food or farm on contaminated soil to policy makers and their ability/inability to enforce legislation. I am thinking it might be helpful to especially an organization working on policy to understand the various ways different actors have opportunities or perceive constraints from taking action so they can target their scare resources to either leveraging opportunities or overcoming obstacles.