ABSTRACT

This chapter aims to initiate a discussion about the immediate and long-term impact of conflict on agriculture, the issues that have to be considered for establishing sustainable agriculture and some of the grassroots and externally supported approaches to rehabilitate the agricultural sector. For international non-governmental organizations (INGO), the strategy for dealing with post-conflict situations tends to draw directly from the strategy for agricultural rehabilitation post-natural disaster. Satisfying donor conditionality and fulfilling the expansive terms of international policies can be a drain on national resources and a distraction from the key concerns of rehabilitating the agriculture sector and attaining sustainable food security. Food security is essential to the survival of the world's population and that equitable access to resources and adequate food help are needed to avoid a return to conflict, practitioners, policymakers and academics need to devote more attention to establishing sustainable agricultural production.