Doctoral Dissertation Research: Food security interventions in the food system

该项目审查了发展粮食安全努力中的话语和实践的转变。具体地说，这项研究考察了与争取粮食主权的社会运动有共同之处的地方粮食安全项目。这项研究询问发展计划在挑战和维持目前的粮食系统方面发挥了什么作用。通过提供粮食安全方案及其影响的详细说明，这项研究将加深对粮食安全努力在实践中展开的方式、其意想不到的结果以及与更具变革性的项目相交的机会的更深层次的理解。通过评估发展机构参与实现粮食主权的努力的可能性，决策者和发展专业人员将感兴趣。在为期五个月的实地工作中，将对开发机构项目官员、非政府组织现场工作人员、食品项目参与者和食品主权倡导者进行访谈和民族志观察。总共将进行80次访谈。数据将使用迭代过程进行分析，以了解粮食主权和粮食安全干预的情况、非典型粮食安全计划的起源以及这些计划在实践中产生的影响。调查结果将揭示不断变化的食品安全决策格局，以及如何在更广泛的食品系统内理解这些变化。这一裁决反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project examines shifting discourse and practice in development food security efforts. Specifically, this study examines local food security programs that share commonalities with social movements for food sovereignty. This study asks what role development programs play in both challenging and maintaining the current food system. By providing a detailed account of food security programs and their effects, this study will add a deeper understanding of the way that food security efforts unfold in practice, their unintended results and opportunities to intersect with more transformative projects. By evaluating the possibility of development institutions to be involved in efforts to attain food sovereignty, it will be of interest to decision makers and development professionals. Findings from this project will inform future directions of food security efforts in food insecure regions.During five months of field work, interviews and ethnographic observation will be conducted with development agency program officers, non-governmental organization field staff, food program participants, and food sovereignty advocates. Eighty interviews will be conducted in total. Data will be analyzed using an iterative process to understand the landscape of food sovereignty and food security interventions, the origins of atypical food security programs, and the effects these programs have in practice. Findings will shed light on the changing landscape of food security decisions and how these changes can be understood within the broader food system.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.