Agricultural Change and the Division of Labor, Ibarapa, Western Nigeria

该奖项将允许PI在尼日利亚西部进行为期五个月的人种学实地考察。她将采访小农户，分析农业技术变革和非洲农村经济中工作组织的社会变革的影响。非洲农村经济受到商品需求迅速急剧增长的影响。由于石油繁荣和随后的崩溃，尼日利亚的这一部分在过去的15年里经历了城市化和食品价格上涨的速度。城市腹地的经济变化引起了家庭农场的变化。该项目将记录小型和大型农场的农场组织，特别关注劳动力的使用、性别分工以及小型农场和大型农场之间的关系。目前的情况将与20年前的情况进行比较，当时PI对小农户进行了基线研究。这项研究很重要，因为非洲的小农户被大多数发展理论家视为非洲大陆当前面临的主要经济问题。加深对小型农场如何运作的理解，特别是它们与较新的大型农场的关系，以及它们如何经受住该地区在过去20年经历的繁荣和萧条周期的理解，对理论家和政策制定者都很有价值。

This award will allow the PI to do five months of ethnographic fieldwork in Western Nigeria. She will interview small-holder farmers to analyze the effects of technical changes in farming and social changes in the organization of work in this African rural economy, which has been exposed to rapid and dramatic increases in the demand for goods. Due to the oil boom and subsequent collapse, this part of Nigeria has experienced increased rates of urbanization and food price inflation during the past 15 years. Economic change in the hinterland of cities has caused changes in family farms. This project will document farm organization in small-holder and larger scale farms with special attention to the use of labor, the gender division of labor, and the relations between small farms and large farms. The current situation will be compared with the situation 20 years ago, when the PI did a baseline study of small-holder farms. This research is important because African small-holder farmers are seen by most development theorists as the major current economic problem facing the continent. Increased understanding of how small farms function, and specifically how they relate to the newer, larger farms, and how they have withstood the boom and bust cycles that the region experienced in the previous 20 years, will be valuable to theorists and policy makers alike.