Dissertation Research: The Effects of Women's Land Tenure Security on Agricultural Productivity in Western Kenya

本项目涉及一名来自华盛顿大学的人类学学生的论文研究。路易斯对肯尼亚妇女土地保有权安全对农业生产力的影响进行了研究。该学生以当地语言为母语，通过参与观察和深入的民族志田野调查，将对随机选择的120户家庭进行农业实践和产出调查，以了解影响农业生产力的重要变量和问题。有待检验的假设包括这样一种假设，即妇女对土地的安全程度越高，她们的农业生产效率就越高。这项研究很重要，因为除了培养学生在经济人类学方面的知识外，所获得的知识将促进我们对非洲农业生产力变化原因的理解。这些信息将对当地和国际规划者在制定解决非洲粮食生产问题的方案时非常有用。

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from Washington University-St. Louis on the effects of women's land tenure security on agricultural productivity in Kenya. The student, a native speaker of the local language, will conduct a survey of agricultural practices and output on a randomly selected set of 120 households after participant observation and in-depth ethnographic fieldwork to learn the important variables and issues which affect farm productivity. The hypotheses to be tested involve the assumption that the greater the degree of women's security about land the more productive their farming will be. This research is important because aside from training students in economic anthropology the knowledge to be gained will advance our understanding of causes of variations of productivity in African agriculture. This information will be useful to local and international planners as they develop programs to solve the problem of food production in Africa.