Pilot Research on Agricultural Growth in a Changing Arctic

第一段：一些新闻报道说，格陵兰的环境变化正在扩大格陵兰农业的可能性。然而，北极的环境变化，包括格陵兰、加拿大和阿拉斯加的环境变化，并不是简单地创造机会，使格陵兰人口或出口能够生产更多的粮食和其他作物。格陵兰的农业历史可以追溯到1000多年前，理解当代农业变化必须通过更深层次的人种学调查来进行。格陵兰提供了一个令人信服的窗口，了解当今和历史上社会和经济变化的过程，人类学田野调查和分析可以详细说明和分析这些过程。了解高纬度地区的农业发展可能会对国家利益产生重大影响。这项研究将为阿拉斯加等其他北极地区的农业潜力提供重要的见解，以及如何发展农业发展，为就业机会很少的偏远农村人口提供健康的食物和经济机会。第2段：该项目将调查格陵兰南部农业的环境和社会文化特征，并最终调查农业生产对格陵兰出现一个可能独立的民族国家的经济和政治影响。这是一项关于在快速环境变化时代对格陵兰南部现代农业进行两次探索性实地考察的建议。第一次访问将集中在首都努克，采访自然资源经理、政府经济学家和学者，了解格陵兰的农业潜力及其社会和政治背景。第二次访问将通过特定农业社区的人种学访谈，调查新的农业利益和做法的程度。这个迫切的项目不仅将调查格陵兰当前的农业范围和因纽特人(格陵兰因纽特人)对农业生产的渴望，而且国际和平研究所致力于测试一种新的、正在开发的北方社会科学方法，即与北极社区共同生产知识。研究人员将与因纽特人密切合作，制定研究议程，并承诺培训来自代表性不足的社区和地区的学者。这一奖项反映了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。

Paragraph 1: Several journalistic accounts report that environmental change in Greenland is expanding possibilities for Greenlandic agriculture. However, environmental change in the Arctic, including in Greenland, Canada and Alaska, is not straightforward in the sense of simply creating opportunities that enables the production of more food and other crops for the Greenlandic population or export. Agricultural history in Greenland goes back over 1000 years and understanding contemporary agricultural changes must be contextualized by a deeper ethnographic inquiry. Greenland offers a compelling window into present-day and historical processes of social and economic change, which anthropological fieldwork and analysis can elaborate and analyze. Understanding agricultural development at high latitudes could prove to be of substantial national interest. This research will provide important insights into the potential of agriculture in other Arctic regions, such as Alaska, and how agricultural development may be developed to provide healthy food and economic opportunity to very remote rural populations with few employment options. Paragraph 2: This project will investigate the environmental and sociocultural characteristics of agriculture in Southern Greenland, and, ultimately, the economic and political implications of agricultural production for the emergence of a potentially independent nation-state in Greenland. This is a proposal to conduct two exploratory research field trips focused upon contemporary agriculture in Southern Greenland in the era of rapid environmental change. The first trip will focus on the capital city of Nuuk, interviewing natural resource managers, government economist, and academics about agricultural potential in Greenland and its social and political context. The second trip will investigate the extent of new agricultural interests and practices through ethnographic interviews in specific farming communities. This EAGER project will not only investigate the extent of agriculture current in Greenland and the aspirations of Inughuit (Greenlandic Inuit) for agricultural production, but the PI is committed to testing a new and developing northern social science methodology of co-producing knowledge with arctic communities. The researcher will work closely with Inughuit to set out a research agenda, and a commitment to training scholars from under-represented communities and regions.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.