Doctoral Dissertation Research: Networks, Decision Models, and Moral Economies in Ecological Agriculture

博士论文研究：生态农业中的网络、决策模型和道德经济

• 批准号: 1823710
• 负责人: Anand Pandian
• 金额: $ 2.51万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823710&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Networks; Decision

Much of the world's commercial food production and consumption today depends on large-scale industrial agriculture and use of toxic chemicals. Increasing knowledge about the negative effects of conventional agriculture on health and the environment as well as deepening food insecurity worldwide have recently pushed global policy institutions to promote an agroecological model of cultivation. This model uses ecological principles to produce food with low inputs and without pesticides or artificial fertilizers. While this alternative model has been entering policy discourse and practice at global and local levels, many people all over the world have already been creating alternative networks around ecological production and consumption. This project, which trains a student in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, aims to understand how these networks operate on the ground by focusing on the moral decisions and economic considerations of producers and consumers. In addition to enhancing scientific understanding of ecological agriculture from an anthropological perspective, the findings would be useful to policy organizations that seek to establish ecological cultivation as a response to food insecurity, environmental degradation, and public health concerns. Burge Abiral, under the supervision of Dr. Anand Pandian of Johns Hopkins University, will explore the new sphere of ecological food production and consumption that has been forming. This research asks: How do ecological farmers justify their cultivation choices in using specific agroecological techniques, as they attend to consumer demand and seek adequate profit? Through which decisions and strategies are ecological food products priced and marketed? How do ecological food products get to be valued in the different phases of the supply chain? How are ecological norms established among the diverse actors in this food network? The research takes place in Turkey, where the researcher has identified two distinct groups engaged in production that can be comparatively studied to analyze more longstanding against nascent ecological agricultural networks. The project will involve 12 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, during which a combination of research techniques, such as interviews, household surveys, and archival research will be conducted. This research will inform debates in anthropology and the social sciences broadly about development, agricultural production, and food security, as well as economic anthropological debates about moral economies and value.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

今天，世界上大部分的商业食品生产和消费都依赖于大规模的工业化农业和有毒化学品的使用。人们越来越了解传统农业对健康和环境的负面影响，以及全世界粮食不安全状况的加剧，最近促使全球政策机构推广农业生态种植模式。这种模式利用生态学原理，以低投入生产粮食，不使用杀虫剂或人造肥料。虽然这一替代模式已进入全球和地方各级的政策讨论和实践，但世界各地的许多人已经围绕生态生产和消费建立了替代网络。该项目培训学生掌握经验性的科学数据收集和分析方法，旨在通过关注生产者和消费者的道德决定和经济考虑，了解这些网络如何在实地运作。除了从人类学的角度加强对生态农业的科学理解外，这些发现还将有助于寻求建立生态种植以应对粮食不安全，环境退化和公共卫生问题的政策组织。Burge Abiral在约翰霍普金斯大学的Anand Pandian博士的监督下，将探索已经形成的生态食品生产和消费的新领域。这项研究问：生态农民在满足消费者需求并寻求足够利润的同时，如何证明他们使用特定农业生态技术的种植选择是合理的？生态食品的定价和营销通过哪些决策和策略？生态食品如何在供应链的不同阶段得到重视？如何在这个食物网络的不同行为者之间建立生态规范？这项研究在土耳其进行，研究人员确定了两个从事生产的不同群体，可以对它们进行比较研究，以分析更长期的新生生态农业网络。该项目将涉及12个月的多地点人种学实地考察，在此期间，将进行访谈、家庭调查和档案研究等研究技术的结合。该研究将为人类学和社会科学中关于发展、农业生产和粮食安全的广泛辩论以及关于道德经济和价值的经济人类学辩论提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Alternative food distribution networks, resilience, and urban food security in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 大流行期间土耳其的替代食品分配网络、复原力和城市粮食安全

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of agriculture food systems and community development
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Atalan-Helicke, Nurcan;Abiral, Bürge
• 通讯作者: Abiral, Bürge

Trusting food supply chains during the pandemic: reflections from Turkey and the U.S.

大流行期间信任食品供应链：土耳其和美国的反思

• DOI: 10.1080/07409710.2020.1790147
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Food and Foodways
• 影响因子: 1
• 作者: Abiral, Bürge;Atalan-Helicke, Nurcan
• 通讯作者: Atalan-Helicke, Nurcan