Challenging Post-conflict Environments

Alpaslan Özerdem, Rebecca Roberts

• 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

’The rehabilitation of agricultural livelihoods has long been problematic for societies recovering from conflict and for donor agencies involved in post-conflict development. This ground-breaking book features interdisciplinary cooperation in international relations and development studies and impressive fieldwork in a range of post-conflict settings. It provides an indispensable antidote to the urban-centric preoccupations of academics in the peacebuilding industry.’ Michael Pugh, University of Bradford, UK 'In many rural societies, the issues of land tenure and agricultural development and sustainability are central to any prospect of success in postconflict reconstruction. Yet this is one of the most understudied aspects of rebuilding wartorn societies. Drs. Ozerdem and Roberts have provided a valuable service in addressing these issues in their timely new volume. Practitioners and scholars alike will find this pathbreaking study filled with keen practical and conceptual insights into the challenges of agricultural sustainability.' Fen Osler Hampson, Carleton University, Canada