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Challenging post-conflict environments sustainable agriculture

By adopting a holistic multi-disciplinary approach which identifies key themes and case studies, this book sets the scene for the debate surrounding sustainable agriculture in post-conflict environments. Seeing 'fixing' agriculture as more than merely a technical matter, the volume focuses...

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Other Authors: Özerdem, Alpaslan (Editor), Roberts, Rebecca (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Ashgate Routledge 2012
Series:Global security in a changing world
Subjects:
Civil war
Ethnic conflict
Peace-building
Postwar reconstruction
Sustainable agriculture > Economic aspects
Sustainable agriculture > Political aspects
Sustainable agriculture > Social aspects
Sustainable agriculture > Developing countries
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Concepts, Issues and Challenges
  • 1. Global Agriculture and the Challenge of Sustainability
  • 2. The Impact of Conflict on Agriculture and Post-conflict Reconstruction Challenges
  • 3. Projections on Future Challenges: Climate Change
  • Part II: Impact of Conflict on Agriculture
  • 4. The Effects of Civil War on Agricultural Development and Rural Livelihood in Sierra Leone
  • 5. How Conflict Affected Agriculture in Nepal
  • 6. The Legacy of War: Unexploded Cluster Munitions in Southern Lebanon
  • 7. Women in Aceh: Conflict and Changing Agricultural Roles
  • Part III: The Recovery of the Agriculture Sector
  • 8. Taking an Agroecological Approach to Recovery: Is It Worth It and Is It Possible?
  • 9. Post-apartheid Struggles: Land Rights and Smallholder Agriculture in South Africa
  • 10. Cambodia: The Challenge of Adding Value to Agriculture after Conflict
  • 11. Avoiding Dairy Aid Traps: The Cases of Uganda, India and Bangladesh
  • 12. Explicitly Licit: Stemming the Sand Tide in Kohsan District, Herat Province, Afghanistan
  • 13. Olive Trees: Livelihoods and Resistance
  • 14. Practical Action in North Darfur
  • 15. Agricultural Information amid Conflict: For Whom and for What?
  • 16. Youth, Associations and Urban Food Security in Post-war Sierra Leone
  • 17. The Only Way to Produce Food is to Cooperate and Reconcile? Failures of Cooperative Agriculture in Post-war Sierra Leone
  • Part IV: Conclusion
  • 18. Concluding Remarks: Looking to the Future

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