Household Producer Effects of Rural Diet Transformation

联合国粮农组织鼓励人们回归传统饮食，许多人已经放弃了一些传统食物，因为它们被西方饮食口味、食物和规范的传播所污名化。本项目着眼于粮农组织建议的变革实际意味着什么：谁来生产，哪些因素会影响生产，对家庭和地方经济的下游影响，以及与流动性增加的联系。这个项目提出的问题是，小众传统饮食的发展能否成为农村社区经济成功的途径？了解传统食品的使用如何促进社会经济弱势农村社区的健康饮食和经济增长，对于可持续粮食计划的发展和促进我国乃至全世界高危人群的粮食安全至关重要。俄亥俄州立大学的杰弗里·科恩将探讨边缘化居民如何应对不断变化的经济和不断上涨的农村饮食成本的挑战。PI将通过一种相对容易获得的、低成本的、在国内生产的蛋白质来源来调查这些问题。虽然传统食品一度被认为不现代，但近年来对传统食品的需求有所增加，一方面是为了当地消费，作为昂贵包装食品的替代品，另一方面是为了回应旅游业日益增长的兴趣。该项目要求生产者在为市场而不是国内消费生产时，如何重新思考生产、市场和劳动力；以及这对家庭结构、家庭组织和性别角色的影响。数据将通过调查、市场测绘、食品期刊、成堆分类和图片提取来开发食品分类，以及以家庭食品为重点的访谈来收集。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The Food and Agriculture Organization is encouraging people to return to traditional foods, some of which many have abandoned because they have been stigmatized by the spread of Western dietary tastes, foods, and norms. This project looks at what the FAO-recommended change would actually mean: who would produce, what factors would affect production, the downstream effects in the household and the local economy, the connections to increasing mobility. This project asks, can the development of niche traditional diet become a pathway to economic success for rural communities? Understanding how the use of traditional foods can promote healthy eating as well as economic growth for socioeconomically disadvantaged rural communities is critical to the development of sustainable food programs and fostering food security for at-risk populations throughout our country and world.Dr. Jeffrey Cohen of the Ohio State University will explore how marginalized residents meet the challenges of a changing economy and the escalating costs of a changing rural diet. The PI will investigate these questions through the lens of a relatively accessible, low-cost source of protein that is produced at home. While once looked down upon as not modern, traditional food demand has increased in recent years, both for local consumption, as an alternative to expensive packaged foods, and in response to increased interest from tourism. The project asks how producers rethink production, the market, and labor, as they produce for the market rather than domestic consumption; and how this impacts household structure, household organization, and gender roles. Data will be collected through surveys, market mapping, food journals, pile sorts and photo elicitation to develop food taxonomies, and household food-focused interviews.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.