Doctoral Dissertation Research: Food security interventions in the food system

本项目审查发展粮食安全努力中不断变化的话语和做法。具体而言，本研究探讨了当地的粮食安全计划，分享粮食主权的社会运动的共性。 这项研究探讨了发展计划在挑战和维持当前粮食系统方面发挥的作用。 通过提供粮食安全计划及其影响的详细说明，本研究将更深入地了解粮食安全工作在实践中的展开方式，其意外结果以及与更具变革性的项目交叉的机会。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考察中，将对发展机构项目官员、非政府组织实地工作人员、粮食计划参与者和粮食主权倡导者进行访谈和人种学观察。 总共将进行80次面试。 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措施的景观，非典型粮食安全计划的起源，以及这些计划在实践中的影响。研究结果将揭示食品安全决策的不断变化的格局，以及如何在更广泛的食品系统中理解这些变化。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

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.