Doctoral Dissertation Research: An anthropological exploration of the efficacy of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) on food security

博士论文研究：有条件现金转移（CCT）对粮食安全功效的人类学探索

• 批准号: 1357325
• 负责人: Eduardo Brondizio
• 金额: $ 0.96万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-15 至 2016-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1357325&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; anthropological; exploration

Indiana University PhD candidate, Ana De Lima, supervised by Prof. Eduardo Brondízio, will investigate the impact of condition cash transfer (CCT) programs on the nutrition of children's diets. The research will focus the study on the Brazilian government's family cash transfer program, the Bolsa Família (BFP), which is an excellent baseline for analyzing CCTs as it has been widely assessed since its inception in 2003 and consumption of processed foods in the rural areas it serves has been on the rise. In particular, the study will look at associations between management of the benefit by mothers in households with different food provisioning strategies and children's food intake. In addition to documenting the management of funds, they will investigate how the mothers' understanding of what represents a good diet influences children's nutrition. This research will use an integrative methodological approach that includes participant observation during grocery shopping, household surveys using structured interviews, inventories of house pantries, food production and procurement for consumption, dietary recalls, anthropometry, and isotope analysis of fingernail fragments (to elucidate dietary history). The researchers will undertake 12 months of fieldwork.Many evaluations of CCTs such as the BFP and the impact on child nutrition have yielded inconsistent results. This is likely because of their largely quantitative, short-term foci. This research builds upon previous research in economic and nutritional anthropology, adding the BFP as an object of inquiry. This research will develop and test an empirical conceptual model and methodology to elucidate linkages among cash transfer policies, household economic and dietary decision, and child nutrition.This research will help us better understand how effective CCT programs are not only in areas such as Amazonas where the research will take place, but globally as such programs are implemented to other countries and continents. The results will also contribute to a better understanding of social assistance programs in the U.S. Food security, particularly as it affects children, has been a top initiative of the U.S. government in recent years. Understanding how cash assistance programs contribute to nutritious diets and in other cases obesity will lead to a healthier population. It has been argued that poor nutrition among poor families is a contributing factor to perpetuating poverty.

印第安纳州大学博士候选人Ana De Lima在Eduardo Brondízio教授的指导下，将调查条件现金转移（CCT）计划对儿童饮食营养的影响。该研究将重点研究巴西政府的家庭现金转移计划，Bolsa Família（BFP），这是分析CCT的一个很好的基线，因为它自2003年成立以来一直被广泛评估，并且它所服务的农村地区加工食品的消费量一直在上升。特别是，这项研究将探讨在采用不同食物供应战略的家庭中母亲对福利的管理与儿童食物摄入量之间的关系。除了记录资金的管理，他们还将调查母亲对什么是良好饮食的理解如何影响儿童的营养。这项研究将使用一种综合的方法，包括在杂货店购物，家庭调查，使用结构化访谈，库存的房子茶水间，食品生产和采购消费，饮食回忆，人体测量和同位素分析指甲碎片（阐明饮食史）的参与者观察。研究人员将进行为期12个月的实地调查。许多对CCT的评估，如BFP和对儿童营养的影响，都得出了不一致的结果。这可能是因为它们主要侧重于数量和短期。这项研究建立在以前的研究在经济和营养人类学，增加了BFP作为调查对象。这项研究将开发和测试一个实证概念模型和方法，以阐明现金转移政策，家庭经济和饮食决策，儿童营养之间的联系，这项研究将帮助我们更好地了解如何有效的CCT计划不仅在亚马逊等地区的研究将发生，但全球范围内，因为这样的计划是实施到其他国家和大陆。研究结果还将有助于更好地了解美国的社会援助计划。近年来，食品安全，特别是影响儿童的食品安全，一直是美国政府的一项重要举措。了解现金援助计划如何促进营养饮食，以及在其他情况下肥胖将导致更健康的人口。有人认为，贫困家庭的营养不良是造成贫困长期存在的一个因素。