Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Development of Farm Management Expertise in New Farming Communities

博士论文研究：新型农​​业社区农场管理专业知识的发展

• 批准号: 1948868
• 负责人: Donald Nelson
• 金额: $ 2.05万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948868&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Development; Farm

Farming continues to provide the basis of livelihoods across the United States. Starting new farms and maintaining them has become increasingly costly and complex, however, requiring farmers to navigate local and global markets, financial institutions, changing environments, and a profusion of technological innovations. How do novice farmers make sense of these complexities? What resources are available to them to learn to successfully navigate farming landscapes in an increasingly global context? How do different actors use the information they acquire to make economic and environmental decisions that affect the sustainability of their efforts? This project trains a graduate student in scientific cultural anthropology and sheds light on these issues to provide a holistic understanding of farming entrepreneurship among novice immigrant farmers in South Florida.Specifically, the research queries how ties to farmers' home communities facilitate or hinder navigation of new social, ecological, and institutional environments, adaptation to new farming practices and technologies, and, by extension, impacts on the economic and environmental decisions they make. Research will be conducted among immigrants who operate small farms in agricultural areas of South Florida where farming is central to livelihoods for many new immigrants. Using a combination of ethnographic and quantitative methodologies, investigators will collect data from farmers and agricultural experts at a variety of sites including farms, markets, meetings, trainings, and informal gatherings. Understanding the transnational resources immigrant farmers use will improve our theoretical understanding of how knowledge moves within and across borders, in turn contributing to programmatic efforts of extension agents, outreach groups, and policy-makers as they address evolving constraints in agriculture and local food systems.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.

农业继续为美国各地的生计提供基础。然而，开办新农场和维持农场变得越来越昂贵和复杂，这要求农民在当地和全球市场、金融机构、不断变化的环境和大量技术创新中游刃有余。新手农民如何理解这些复杂性？在日益全球化的背景下，他们可以利用什么资源来学习成功地驾驭农业景观？不同的行为者如何利用他们所获得的信息作出影响其努力可持续性的经济和环境决定？该项目培训了一名科学文化人类学的研究生，并阐明了这些问题，以提供对南佛罗里达新移民农民的农业创业精神的全面理解。具体而言，研究询问了与农民家庭社区的联系如何促进或阻碍新的社会，生态和制度环境的导航，适应新的农业实践和技术，并通过扩展，对他们所做的经济和环境决策的影响。研究将在南佛罗里达农业区经营小农场的移民中进行，那里的农业是许多新移民生计的核心。使用民族志和定量方法相结合，调查人员将从农场，市场，会议，培训和非正式聚会等各种场所的农民和农业专家那里收集数据。了解移民农民使用的跨国资源将提高我们对知识如何在国内和跨国界流动的理论理解，从而有助于推广机构，外展团体，和政策-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。