Doctoral Dissertation Research: Migrations and Agricultural Change -- The Case of Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Ecuador

比利李特纳II布拉德D. Jokisch克拉克大学论文改进研究：迁移和农业变化：在厄瓜多尔南部的小农农业的案例本研究调查了迁移策略，主要是男性，对土地生产力在厄瓜多尔南部高地的影响。移民和农业变化之间的联系存在着模糊性。本研究试图通过明确地将移徙与土地使用结果联系起来来澄清这些联系：家庭农业生产力是否受到家庭移徙活动类型的影响？厄瓜多尔卡纳尔地区将作为研究区域。将调查长期从事国际迁移的家庭以及那些在更局部的迁移和流通中活跃的家庭。通过开展社区范围内的土地生产力调查，结合代表主要迁移策略的家庭的二手资料和口述历史，可以评估迁移的影响。将劳动力流动作为影响农业利用的一个因素，将阐明劳动力流动与农业变化之间的联系，从而有助于移民和农业变化的理论。这项研究与发展工作直接相关，因为它将提供有关在不同条件下获得劳动力和资金的农业变化的宝贵数据。

SBR-9423204 Billie Lee Turner II Brad D. Jokisch Clark University Dissertation Improvement Research: Migrations and Agricultural Change: The Case of Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Ecuador This research investigates the impact of migratory strategies, predominantly male, on land productivity in the highlands of southern Ecuador. Ambiguity exists over the linkages between migrations and agricultural change. This research seeks to clarify these linkages by explicitly connecting migration to land-use outcomes: is household agricultural productivity affected by the type of household migratory activity? The Canar, Ecuador region will serve as the study area. Households that have engaged in long-term international migration as well as those active in more localized migration and circulation will be surveyed. By conducting a community-wide land productivity survey, combined with secondary sources and oral histories of households representing the dominant migratory strategies, the impacts of the migrations can be assessed. Incorporating labor mobility as a factor influencing agricultural use will illuminate the linkages between labor mobility and agricultural change, thus contribute to both the theories of migration and agricultural change. The research is directly relevant to development efforts because it will provide valuable data concerning agricultural change under varying conditions of access to labor and money.