RAPID: Food security and community health during a period of transition

RAPID：转型时期的粮食安全和社区健康

• 批准号: 1328245
• 负责人: Craig Hadley
• 金额: $ 2.94万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1328245&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Food; security; community; health

Drs Craig Hadley (Emory University) and Edward Stevenson (University College London) will undertake research to advance understanding of the effects of local ecology on human well-being. Their research focuses on communities which are undergoing resettlement and a transition from agro-pastoralism to more intensive agriculture as part of a regional development scheme. This scheme will alter local ecology by enabling irrigation through newly built canals, but will constrain access to grazing land and alter seasonal population movements. Using surveys, interviews, and ethnographic methods, the study will lay the groundwork for later follow-up to answer three questions: (1) How do changes in local ecology affect food security, water security, and mental health? (2) Is later well-being better predicted by prior social status (e.g. gender and education) or economic status (household wealth)? (3) Do investments in education and medical services compensate for the stresses of relocation and greater population density, in terms of improving community health?This study will bring together researchers from public health and anthropology. It contributes to establishing a longitudinal research project that will assess food security and community health during momentous ecological and social changes. The effects of such changes on mental health are particularly important to document. The project stands to contribute to policy regarding resettlement, especially with regard to populations reliant on livestock herding. Pastoralist communities occupy approximately 50% of the land area of East Africa, but constitute only 10% of the population; state economic development initiatives are increasingly targeting such land for alternative uses, with important implications for local livelihoods. Longitudinal research on food security and community health should help to inform best practice in resettlement programs.

克雷格·哈德利博士（埃默里大学）和爱德华·史蒂文森博士（伦敦大学学院）将进行研究，进一步了解当地生态对人类福祉的影响。他们的研究重点是作为区域发展计划的一部分，正在重新安置和从农牧业向更集约化农业过渡的社区。该计划将通过新建的水渠进行灌溉，从而改变当地的生态，但将限制人们进入牧场，并改变季节性人口流动。通过调查、访谈和民族志方法，本研究将为后续研究奠定基础，以回答以下三个问题：(1)当地生态变化如何影响粮食安全、水安全和心理健康？(2)以后的幸福是由先前的社会地位（如性别和教育）还是经济地位（家庭财富）更好地预测？(3)在改善社区卫生方面，对教育和医疗服务的投资能否弥补搬迁和人口密度增加带来的压力？这项研究将汇集公共卫生和人类学的研究人员。它有助于建立一个纵向研究项目，以评估重大生态和社会变化期间的粮食安全和社区健康。记录这些变化对心理健康的影响尤为重要。该项目将有助于制定关于重新安置的政策，特别是关于依赖畜牧业的人口的政策。牧民社区约占东非土地面积的50%，但只占人口的10%；国家经济发展计划越来越多地将这些土地作为替代用途，对当地生计产生重要影响。对粮食安全和社区卫生的纵向研究应有助于为重新安置方案的最佳实践提供信息。