Seafood Kitchen

Abstract

This research note provides an anthropological insight on Seafood Kitchen, a microenterprise under ‘Theeramythri’—the flagship project of Society for Assistance to Fisherwomen (SAF) in Kerala. SAF as an agency was formed in a critical situation where the livelihood aspects and resources of the coastal communities were destroyed after Tsunami in 2004. Department of fisheries under government of Kerala initiated and established microenterprises for fisherwomen under ‘Theeramythri’ to make use of the local resources through women empowerment. Seafood Kitchen was one of the many initiatives of Theeramythri. With the intervention and support of government and organizations like SAF, fisherwomen now come forward to take up microenterprises and their involvement shows remarkable changes in family and society. The present study highlights the different aspects of Seafood Kitchen and its scope for development of fisherwomen in the coast of Kerala from an etic perspective.

Keywords

Fisherwomen marine resources microenterprise development

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