Challenging post-conflict environments : sustainable agriculture
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Challenging post-conflict environments : sustainable agriculture
（Global security in a changing world）
Ashgate, c2012
- : hbk
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Sustainable agriculture
Available at 5 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this volume by A-zerdem and Roberts conceptualizes the challenges of developing sustainable agriculture in post-conflict environments as well as identifying the policies and practical solutions to achieve sustainable agricultural production which is central to the survival of humanity. Without sustainable agriculture, populations remain vulnerable increasing the likelihood of a return to conflict. Therefore, sustainable agriculture is central to effective post-conflict recovery that provides human security as well as stability and rule of law. Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative understanding of sustainable agriculture challenges in post-conflict environments, there is originality in the interdisciplinary nature of the book. Interdisciplinary often means bringing together a political scientist and a sociologist, but in this case it means bringing together natural and social scientists, as well as those with practical experience in development and agricultural contexts. 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 on this critical post-conflict challenge with social, political and cultural characteristics and consequences as well as the obvious economic ones.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 7: Women in Aceh
- III: The Recovery of the Agriculture Sector
- 8: Taking an Agroecological Approach to Recovery
- 9: Post-apartheid Struggles
- 10: Cambodia
- 11: Avoiding Dairy Aid Traps
- 12: Explicitly Licit
- 13: Olive Trees
- 14: Practical Action in North Darfur
- 15: Agricultural Information amid Conflict
- 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
- IV: Conclusion
- 18: Concluding Remarks
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