Doctoral Dissertation Research: Evaluating Technological Innovation in Agriculture and Food Security

博士论文研究：评估农业和粮食安全的技术创新

• 批准号: 1823873
• 负责人: Joao Biehl
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823873&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Evaluating; Technological

Scientists warn that food security will only become more challenged in the coming decades as environmental shocks intensify and agriculture grows increasingly vulnerable to disruption. Amid a new sense of urgency regarding environmental change and food production, policymakers are deciding how to allocate development aid to improve food systems under the banner of climate-smart agriculture (CSA). CSA aims to be an experimental and data-driven approach, with a focus on introducing new technologies, improved and transgenic seeds and novel farming techniques among small-scale farmers to mitigate the effects of rapid environmental change more efficiently. The United States is an early adopter of the climate-smart concept since 2010 but has only recently started to direct official development aid toward expressly climate-smart agricultural (CSA) programs elsewhere, in conjunction with international organizations, philanthropic foundations, and multinational corporate partners. To date, the technological and relational content of climate-smart agriculture in practice has received little in-depth scholarly investigation. Both academics and practitioners of development puzzle over what climate resilience actually entails and how its success can be achieved and measured. This study, which trains a graduate student in methods of rigorous, empirical data collection and analysis, explores the relationship between climate-smart agriculture and practices related to food security. Further, this project will build capacity and scientific infrastructure through international scientific cooperation, and enhance public scientific understanding by broadly disseminating findings to organizations engaged in issues related to agricultural development and food security.Serena Stein, under the supervision of Dr. Joao Biehl of Princeton University, will investigate how agricultural aid is remade with experimental, relational, and ethical implications for smallholder farmers, through a grounded study of three unfolding climate smart projects in Mozambique in southeastern Africa. Mozambique is an appropriate site for assessing climate-smart agriculture in practice. The high volume of development aid invested historically and currently, especially in the area of sustainable development, makes it an ideal laboratory for evaluating climate-smart agriculture longitudinally. Climate-smart commitments take place via bilateral aid partnerships with traditional donors such as the United States, as well as emerging donors like Brazil, and private corporations. Using ethnographic methods of participant-observation and interviews with farmer beneficiaries and development practitioners, the researchers will examine how development discourse, technology transfer and farming practice is reconfigured when agricultural aid is mobilized around the climate-smart paradigm. Of particular interest are the ways that women farmers respond to these initiatives, and the local perceptions and lived experiences of environmental change, land rights and food security that emerge in the context of these interventions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

科学家警告说，随着环境冲击的加剧和农业越来越容易受到破坏的影响，粮食安全只会在未来几十年中变得更加挑战。在对环境变化和粮食生产的新紧迫感中，决策者正在决定如何在气候智能农业（CSA）的旗帜下分配发展援助以改善粮食系统。 CSA的目标是一种实验性和数据驱动的方法，重点是引入新技术，改进和转基因种子和小型农民中的新型耕作技术，以更有效地减轻环境变化的影响。自2010年以来，美国是气候智能概念的早期采用者，但最近才开始将官方发展援助指向其他地方的气候智能农业（CSA）计划，与国际组织，慈善基金会和跨国公司合作。迄今为止，实际上，气候智能农业的技术和关系含量几乎没有深入的学术研究。关于气候弹性的实际需要以及如何实现和衡量其成功的学者和发展的学者和从业者。这项研究培训了一名研究生的研究生，探讨了严格的经验数据收集和分析方法，探讨了气候智能农业与粮食安全有关的实践之间的关系。此外，该项目将通过国际科学合作来建立能力和科学基础架构，并通过向从事农业发展和粮食安全有关的组织进行广泛传播，从而增强公共科学理解。SerenaStein，在普林斯顿大学的Joao Biehl博士的监督下，将如何通过对农业的研究进行研究，并研究如何进行研究，并研究如何进行研究，并研究了一位实验性的，并且是一种实验性的，并且是一种实验性的，并且涉及实验性的，并且是一种实验性的，并且涉及实验性的，并且涉及实验性的，并将其涉及实验性，并将其变性。在非洲东南部的莫桑比克展开气候智能项目。 莫桑比克是在实践中评估气候智能农业的合适地点。大量的开发援助在历史上进行了投资，尤其是在可持续发展领域，使其成为纵向评估气候智能农业的理想实验室。气候智能承诺是通过与传统捐助者（例如美国）以及巴西等新兴捐助者和私人公司的双边援助伙伴关系进行的。研究人员将使用参与者观察的民族志方法以及对农民受益人和发展从业人员的访谈，将研究发展话语，技术转移和农业实践如何在围绕气候智能范式动员的农业援助时如何重新配置​​。特别令人感兴趣的是女性农民应对这些举措的方式，在这些干预措施的背景下出现的环境变化，土地权和粮食安全的当地看法和生活经验。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过使用该基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估Criteria的评估，并被视为值得通过评估的支持。