Reconstructing Agriculture in Afghanistan
Paperback: 978 1 85339 634 2
Price: $35.95  

Publisher: Practical Action
April 2008 , 370 pp., 6 1/8" x 9 1/4"
boxes, figures & tables
Pre-2001 Afghanistan has been widely represented as 25 years of war and devastation, leaving a post-conflict reconstruction agenda to start with a clean state. This analysis has ignored the nature of Afghanistan, its complexity, and its fundamental resilience. Through a critical analysis of key aspects of the rural economy and drivers of change, including the opium poppy economy, this book critically explores assumptions made about Afghanistan as a crisis state and post-conflict environment, and its reconstruction agendas and practice, and considers the limitations of the response of the international community.

Bringing together papers by key practitioners and food security analysts, this book provides an important reference for operational agencies and researchers.

Table of Contents:
Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Boxes; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; List of Authors; Introduction: Reconstructing Agriculture in Afghanistan; 1) Afghanistan: The Context—Adam Pain; 2) Rural Resilience and Diversity Across Afghanistan’s Agricultural Landscapes—Anthony Fitzherbert; 3) Rural Livelihoods in Afghanistan—Adam Pain; 4) The Evolution of Food Security Information in Afghanistan: A Case of Limited “Availability”, “Access” and “Utilization”—Wendy Johnecheck; 5) Towards a Public Nutrition Response in Afghanistan: Evolutions in Nutritional Assessment and Response—Charlotte Dufor and Annalies Borrel; 6) Food Security in Afghanistan after 2001: From Assessment to Analysis and Interpretation to Response—Andrew Pinney and Scott Ronchini; 7) Narratives of Rehabilitation in Afghan Agricultural Interventions—Ian Christoplos; 8) Afghan Women, Afghan Livelihoods—Elizabeth Stites; 9) “Economical with the Truth”: The Limits of Price and Profitability in both Explaining Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan and in Designing Effective Responses—David Mansfield; 10) Markets in Afghanistan: Adam Pain and Sarah Lister; 11) Towards a Framework for Agricultural Development and Food Security in Afghanistan—Alberto Zezza and Mauro Migotto; 12) Responding to Food Insecurity: Could We Have Done it Better?—Margarita Flores; Notes; References; Index.


Customers who have this book also purchased these titles:
Share
Reviews & Endorsements:
“[A] pathbreaking practical contribution and an exciting and rish compliment to development studies.”
- Professor Barbara Harriss-White, Director , Queen Elizabeth House