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

该项目涉及华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校一名人类学学生的论文研究，题目是妇女的土地保有权保障对肯尼亚农业生产力的影响。 该学生以当地语言为母语，将对随机选择的120个家庭进行农业实践和产出调查，经过参与者观察和深入的人种学实地考察，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个假设，即妇女对土地的安全程度越高，她们的耕作生产力就越高。 这项研究很重要，因为除了对学生进行经济人类学培训外，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。 这些信息将有助于当地和国际规划者制定解决非洲粮食生产问题的方案。

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.