Going Places: Empowering Women, Enhancing Heritage and Increasing Chicken Production in Ethiopia

我们在埃塞俄比亚的人类学研究让我们熟悉了一句著名的阿姆哈拉谚语：“女人和鸡早上起得很早，但他们无处可去。”该项目旨在帮助解决妇女在社会经济上不流动这一普遍问题。通过与国际畜牧研究所（ILRI）、埃塞俄比亚国家博物馆和非洲方案合作，该项目将开展以女性为中心的过去和现在的养鸡文化/科学研究，以支持埃塞俄比亚未来的经济/遗产发展。通过启动新的艺术/人文科学合作和过去与现在的比较，我们将展示这些方法如何产生重要数据，以便为决策提供背景和信息，并吸引和教育利益相关者。为了在8个月的时间内实现这些目标，我们将使用我们经过验证的大型赠款方法来研究埃塞俄比亚的阿姆哈拉和提格雷地区，并使用以下相关方法(M)实现六个相关目标(O)。赋予妇女权力，确保她们在埃塞俄比亚家禽业发展中的中心地位。M1)与国际养鸡研究所合作开展跨学科性别调查和人类学研究，以获取目标地区养鸡的实际经验，然后（与国际养鸡研究所、非洲方案和当地社区）共同制作以女性为重点的双语教育材料。利用鸡的文化历史和与大英博物馆非洲项目的合作，为博物馆工作人员和游客开发教育材料。M3)在人类学田野调查期间将记录现代畜牧业的物质文化，同时将调查埃塞俄比亚和英国博物馆的藏品，以开发关联的埃塞俄比亚-英国教育材料（O2）。调查、分析和记录埃塞俄比亚当地的鸡品种（M4）在田野调查（M1）期间收集的现代鸡标本（约100只）将进行全面的骨测量/几何形态测量、遗传和稳定同位素分析，以提供品种恢复力/管理信息。结果将与古数据（O5）进行比较。与埃塞俄比亚国家博物馆合作，通过对考古标本的全面分析（cf M4），探索古代埃塞俄比亚鸡的引进、多样性、发展和管理。将举行两次住宅研究网络会议，将团队聚集在一起：第一次会议将于2016年11月举行（伦敦高级研究学院），第二次会议将于2017年2月举行（埃塞俄比亚ILRI）。在最后一次会议上（2017年6月，埃塞俄比亚国家博物馆），我们将发布我们的教育材料，介绍项目的学术成果（供出版），并以白皮书的形式提出建议，探讨对政策制定者（世界银行和联合国粮农组织）的影响。

Our anthropological research in Ethiopia made us familiar with a well-known Amharic proverb: "Women and chickens rise early in the morning, but they have nowhere to go". This project aims to help address this widespread issue of female socio-economic immobility. Through collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the National Museum of Ethiopia and the Africa Programme, this project will conduct female-centred cultural/scientific research into chicken husbandry, past and present, to support Ethiopia's future economic/heritage development.By kick-starting a new Arts/Humanities-Science collaboration and Past-Present comparison we will demonstrate how such approaches can generate vital data to contextualise and inform decision-making, and engage and educate stakeholders. To achieve these aims within the 8-month period, we will use our proven Large Grant approach to research the Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia and meet six connected objectives (O) using the following linked methods (M). O1) To empower women and ensure their centrality in the development of Ethiopia's poultry industry. M1) Work in collaboration with ILRI to conduct interdisciplinary gender survey and anthropological research to capture lived experiences of chicken husbandry in target regions and then co-produce (with ILRI, Africa Programme and local communities) bi-lingual female-focused educational materials. O2) Facilitate Ethiopia's heritage development M2) Use the chicken's cultural history and collaboration with British Museum's Africa Programme to develop educational materials for museum staff and visitors. O3) Survey and record the material cultures of chicken husbandry M3) Material cultures of modern husbandry will be recorded during anthropological fieldwork, whilst collections held in Ethiopian and UK museums will be surveyed to develop linked Ethiopian-UK educational materials (O2). O4) Survey, analyse and record local Ethiopian chicken breeds M4) Modern chicken specimens (~100 individuals) collected during fieldwork (M1) will be subject to full osteometric/geometric morphometric, genetic and stable isotope analysis to inform on breed resilience/management. Results will be compared with the ancient data (O5).O5) Undertake a deep-time analysis of Ethiopian chicken breed/husbandry M5) Working with the National Museum of Ethiopia, the introduction, diversity, development and management of ancient Ethiopian chickens will be explored through full analysis (cf M4) of archaeological specimens.O6) Generate strong collaboratively produced outputs that move forward scholarship and feed into policy M6) Two residential Research Network meetings will be held to bring the team together: the first will take place in Nov 2016 (School of Advanced Studies, London), the second Feb 2017 (ILRI, Ethiopia). At the final conference (June 2017, National Museum Ethiopia) we will launch our education materials, present the project's academic results (for publication) and recommendations as a white paper that will explore implications for policy makers (World Bank and UN FAO).