Farming Systems and Socio-Cultural Determinants of Child Growth in Two Ecological Zones of Ecuador

厄瓜多尔两个生态区的农业系统和儿童生长的社会文化决定因素

• 批准号: 9106378
• 负责人: Kathleen DeWalt
• 金额: $ 9.36万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-08-15 至 1994-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9106378&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Farming; Systems; Socio; Cultural; Determinants

This project involves cultural and biological anthropologists studying the causes of growth variation in Ecuadorian children. Households in two communities, one a more traditional farming community in the highlands and the other a more cash-crop oriented community in the lowlands will be studied. Methods include participant observation, surveys, formal interviews, and periodic measures of growth, illness and activity in a sample of families. The hypothesis to be tested is that the traditional farming regime produces children who grow better than those in the more "modern", cash crop regime, by providing a broader assortment of foods and allowing mothers more autonomy and control over resources. This research is important because the issue of child health is critical in the developing world, and development programs stressing "modern" cash-crop agriculture may be damaging the overall health of the families by ignoring issues of diet and mother's access to resources. This project will provide a controlled comparison which will shed light on this issue.

该项目涉及研究厄瓜多尔儿童生长差异的原因的文化和生物人类学家。 将研究两个社区的家庭，一个家庭是高地的一个更传统的农业社区，另一个将研究低地的面向现金创作社区。 方法包括参与者观察，调查，正式访谈以及家庭样本样本中生长，疾病和活动的定期衡量标准。 要检验的假设是，传统的农业制度会通过提供更广泛的食品，并使母亲更自主和对资源的控制，从而产生了比“现代”现金农作物制度中成长更好的孩子。 这项研究很重要，因为儿童健康问题在发展中国家至关重要，而强调“现代”现金农业的发展计划可能会通过忽略饮食和母亲获得资源的机会来损害家庭的整体健康状况。 该项目将提供一个受控的比较，该比较将阐明此问题。