Dissertation Research: Land-Use in Highland Bolivia: Farm Household Choices and Communal Land Management

本项目支持玻利维亚高原文化人类学家的论文研究。这项研究将审查安第斯地区的土地使用情况，重点是根据家庭和地方资源管理机构的选择。该研究考察了部门跟踪系统，该系统平衡了社区对农业决策的控制与农民个人的决定。该项目将检查一个农场的土壤样本，将休耕策略的决策与土壤质量联系起来。方法包括参与观察，对130户农户进行抽样调查，并从受访农户和不同农业生态区的30块田进行土壤取样和分析。这项研究很重要，因为世界上这个地区有明确的传统社区资源管理机构。了解特定机构如何成功或失败地管理土壤等基本资源，对于帮助设计其他领域的保护政策非常重要。

This project supports the dissertation research of a cultural anthropologist in highland Bolivia. The research will examine Andean land-use focusing on the field fallowing choices of households and local resource management institutions. The study examines sectoral fallowing systems, which balance community control over agricultural decisions with individual farmer's decisions. The project will examine the soil on a sample of farms to relate decisions about fallow strategies to soil quality. Methods include participant observation, a sample survey of 130 farm families, and soil samples and analysis from the interviewed farms and a sample of 30 fields in different agro-ecological zones. This research is important because this area of the world has well-defined traditional community resource management institutions. Understanding how specific institutions succeed or fail in managing fundamental resources like soil is important to help design conservation policies for other areas.