Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Demand for Diversity: The Globalization of Asian Fruit and Vegetable Production for New York City Markets

博士论文研究：对多样性的需求：纽约市市场的亚洲水果和蔬菜生产的全球化

• 批准号: 0425734
• 负责人: Christine Padoch
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0425734&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Demand; Diversity

New York City presents an enormous and ever-changing market for a large variety of fruits and vegetables. Some products are produced regionally, most come from distant corners of the world. Recent studies on agricultural commodity chains in the United States suggest that homogenization and corporate appropriation are associated with spatial expansion. Yet within New York City methods of food procurement are continually remade. East Asian immigrants in New York City have developed a diverse and dynamic system to satisfy the demands of their ethnic groups. Although the Asian food system is rapidly undergoing geographic expansion, it displays characteristics apart from other global food systems. Trade networks based in social relations, diverse cropping systems, and family owned and operated firms constitute the Asian food system. The seemingly unique nature of this food system leads to the main research questions, how is the distribution and production of Asian fruits and vegetables organized? Is it different than corporately controlled, globalized agriculture? Does it have different social and environmental impacts? Tying together previous studies on the globalization of agriculture, alternative food systems and studies on agrobiodiversity, this project will describe and analyze the cultivation and marketing of Asian fruits and vegetables on a newly emergent global scale. The project will be multi-sited and include New York City as the market destination, southern Florida as a well-established point of production and distribution, and Honduras as a newly emergent site of production. This project will combine standard ecological surveys and spatial analysis with semi-structured interviews to examine how the relationship between consumers, distributors and producers ultimately influence the use of plant resources in a food system. By focusing on a food system broadly distinguished by ethnicity, this research will describe how immigrants not only create new market demands, but concurrently create new systems of resource use to satisfy their demands. This understanding is significant in a world of highly mobile people and commodities. This project will build on the tradition of research within geography that looks at the influence of political and economic structures on natural resource use, while taking a new approach that integrates this tradition with research on global agricultural systems. Research results will include impact analysis of a poorly-studied system of production and distribution and will generate suggestions for market-based agricultural development and trade regulation. High school students in New York City are included in the project as interns, providing them with scientific training. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award will enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

纽约市为各种水果和蔬菜提供了一个巨大且不断变化的市场。有些产品是区域性生产的，大多数来自世界遥远的角落。最近对美国农业商品链的研究表明，同质化和公司占用与空间扩张有关。然而，在纽约市，食品采购的方法不断被改造。纽约市的东亚移民建立了一个多元化且充满活力的体系来满足其族裔群体的需求。虽然亚洲粮食系统正在迅速地经历地理扩张，但它显示出与其他全球粮食系统不同的特点。以社会关系为基础的贸易网络、多样化的种植制度以及家庭拥有和经营的企业构成了亚洲粮食体系。这个食物系统看似独特的性质导致了主要的研究问题，亚洲水果和蔬菜的分布和生产是如何组织的？它与公司控制的全球化农业有什么不同？是否会产生不同的社会和环境影响？本项目将结合以往关于农业全球化、替代食品系统和农业生物多样性的研究，在新出现的全球范围内描述和分析亚洲水果和蔬菜的种植和销售。该项目将是多地点的，包括纽约市作为市场目的地，佛罗里达南部作为成熟的生产和分销点，洪都拉斯作为新出现的生产地点。该项目将结合联合收割机标准的生态调查和空间分析与半结构化访谈，以研究消费者，分销商和生产者之间的关系如何最终影响植物资源在食品系统中的使用。通过关注一个由种族广泛区分的食物系统，本研究将描述移民如何不仅创造新的市场需求，但同时创造新的资源使用系统，以满足他们的需求。在一个人口和商品高度移动的世界中，这种理解意义重大。该项目将建立在地理学研究传统的基础上，着眼于政治和经济结构对自然资源利用的影响，同时采取一种新的方法，将这一传统与全球农业系统的研究相结合。研究结果将包括对研究不足的生产和分配系统的影响分析，并将为基于市场的农业发展和贸易监管提出建议。纽约市的高中生作为实习生被纳入该项目，为他们提供科学培训。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项将使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。