Reconstructing Agriculture In Afghanistan

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ISBN: 9781853396342 | 1853396346
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Copyright: 4/30/2008

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Reconstruction and development work in conflict and crisis situations is high on the agenda of many development agencies worldwide. This book contributes to a growing volume of work that interrogates past and present interventions and puts food security at the heart of both short- and long-term responses to crises.

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of boxes	p. xiii
List of figures	p. xiv
List of tables	p. xvi
List of abbreviations and acronyms	p. xvii
List of authors	p. xx
Introduction: Reconstructing Agriculture in Afghanistan	p. 1
Afghanistan: the context	p. 11
Introduction	p. 11
Once upon a time: the major narratives of Afghanistan	p. 13
Understanding state failure and reconstruction	p. 17
State building in Afghanistan	p. 18
Security and power	p. 20
Conditions for growth	p. 22
Conclusion	p. 26
Rural resilience and diversity across Afghanistan's agricultural landscapes	p. 29
Development and iconoclasm: challenging the orthodoxies	p. 29
Agricultural development policies	p. 34
Afghanistan's chartered landscapes	p. 37
Conclusion	p. 47
Rural livelihoods in Afghanistan	p. 49
Introduction	p. 49
The concept of livelihoods	p. 50
The dynamics of livelihood change in Afghanistan	p. 52
Future trajectories of change	p. 61
The evolution of food security information in Afghanistan: a case of limited 'availability', 'access' and 'utilization'	p. 65
Introduction	p. 65
The evolution of food security assessment methods and tools: a product of time, space and discipline	p. 66
The evolution of food security information in Afghanistan	p. 72
Towards a public nutrition response in Afghanistan: evolutions in nutritional assessment and response	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
Malnutrition in Afghanistan	p. 95
The challenges of assessing the nutritional situation	p. 103
Interventions and response	p. 107
Learning from the past, responding to the present and preparing for the future	p. 116
Food security in Afghanistan after 2001: from assessment to analysis and interpretation to response	p. 119
Climate, politics, refugees and opium: a backdrop to understanding food insecurity from 2001-05	p. 119
The development of methods for assessing food security and welfare	p. 125
The drought crisis narrative: an ill-informed agenda?	p. 136
Analysis and responses	p. 142
Lessons learnt	p. 157
Narratives of rehabilitation in Afghan agricultural interventions	p. 165
Introduction	p. 165
The role of agriculture in food security and livelihoods in Afghanistan	p. 168
The linking of relief, rehabilitation and development in Afghan agriculture	p. 171
Services, markets and institutions	p. 175
Narratives of Afghanistan's rural future	p. 183
Afghan women, Afghan livelihoods	p. 189
Introduction	p. 189
The 'Afghan woman'	p. 189
Terminology and methodology	p. 190
Gender	p. 191
Human security of rural Afghan women	p. 192
Conclusion	p. 211
'Economical with the truth': the limits of price and profitability in both explaining opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan and in designing effective responses	p. 213
Introduction	p. 213
The disabling environment	p. 215
Challenging conventional wisdom	p. 220
Policy responses: eradication and alternative livelihoods	p. 227
Conclusion	p. 232
Markets in Afghanistan	p. 235
Introduction	p. 235
Rebuilding Afghanistan's markets?	p. 236
Understanding real markets	p. 239
Markets, risk and poverty	p. 247
Conclusion	p. 249
Towards a framework for agricultural development and food security in Afghanistan	p. 251
Introduction	p. 251
The international debate on poverty, rural development and food security and the role of agriculture	p. 253
Selected strategic issues: Where do we go from here?	p. 273
Short-termism and information systems	p. 276
Conclusion	p. 278
Responding to food insecurity: could we have done it better?	p. 283
Introduction	p. 283
Key food insecurity lessons from Afghanistan after 2001	p. 283
The Twin Track approach to fighting hunger and enhancing food security	p. 285
Could a Twin Track approach have improved the content and shape of the food security response?	p. 288
Lessons from Afghanistan for a Twin Track approach to addressing food insecurity	p. 291
Conclusion	p. 295
Notes	p. 297
References	p. 313
Index	p. 335
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