African Farmers and Their Environment in Long Term Perspective

从长远角度看非洲农民及其环境

• 批准号: 9501422
• 负责人: Jane Guyer
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-04-01 至 1997-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9501422&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: African; Farmers; Their; Environment; Long

This project involves a workshop to be held in Wageningen, Netherlands, in May 1995. The workshop will involves 11 US-based scholars and 17 scholars from Europe and Africa. The topic is the review and development of knowledge about African farming productivity based on long-term ethnographic studies. Scholars will discuss what has been learned so far and work out research strategies to fill in the gaps and advance our understanding of the causes of high and low productivity in African agriculture. The perspectives involved will join detailed studies of local systems with larger scale regional and global change studies. This conference is important because rates of population growth in Africa are far higher than rates of growth of food production. Understanding the variations in agricultural productivity from a community-based and decision-making perspective can help planners design policies to improve the rate of growth of African food production.

这个项目涉及将于1995年5月在荷兰瓦赫宁根举行的一个讲习班。该研讨会将有11位美国学者和17位来自欧洲和非洲的学者参加。主题是基于长期人种学研究的非洲农业生产力知识的回顾和发展。学者们将讨论到目前为止已经学到的东西，并制定研究策略来填补空白，并推进我们对非洲农业生产力高低的原因的理解。所涉及的观点将把对地方系统的详细研究与更大规模的区域和全球变化研究结合起来。这次会议很重要，因为非洲的人口增长率远远高于粮食产量的增长率。从社区和决策的角度了解农业生产力的变化可以帮助规划者设计政策以提高非洲粮食生产的增长率。