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

农业变革和劳动分工，伊巴拉帕，尼日利亚西部

• 批准号: 8704188
• 负责人: Jane Guyer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-01-01 至 1990-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8704188&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Agricultural; Change; Division; Labor; Ibarapa

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.

该奖项将允许PI在尼日利亚西部进行为期五个月的民族志实地考察。她将采访小农户，分析农业技术变革和社会变革对非洲农村经济工作组织的影响，非洲农村经济已经暴露于对商品需求的快速和急剧增长。由于石油繁荣和随后的崩溃，尼日利亚的这一部分在过去15年中经历了城市化和食品价格通胀率的上升。城市腹地的经济变化引起了家庭农场的变化。该项目将记录小农和大规模农场的农场组织，特别关注劳动力的使用、性别分工以及小农场和大农场之间的关系。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。这项研究之所以重要，是因为大多数发展理论家认为非洲小农户是非洲大陆目前面临的主要经济问题。增加对小型农场如何运作的了解，特别是它们如何与较新的大型农场相关联，以及它们如何经受住该地区在过去20年中经历的繁荣和萧条周期，对理论家和政策制定者都很有价值。