Leveraging agricultural revitalisation for peace: Post-conflict recovery, agri-food systems, and food security in Syria

Syria’s embattled new government faces a catalogue of competing short-, medium-, and long-term recovery priorities. Agriculture remains, despite extensive damage to agricultural lands and irrigation infrastructure, the backbone of Syria’s rural economy. Its critical pre-war contribution to domestic...

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Main Authors: Schapendonk, Frans, Rabie, Sara, Jaskolski, Martina
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178744
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Rabie, Sara
Jaskolski, Martina
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description Syria’s embattled new government faces a catalogue of competing short-, medium-, and long-term recovery priorities. Agriculture remains, despite extensive damage to agricultural lands and irrigation infrastructure, the backbone of Syria’s rural economy. Its critical pre-war contribution to domestic food security, employment, and Syria’s export economy means a reconstituted agricultural sector has the potential to become an important engine for broader post-conflict recovery. Agricultural reconstruction and recovery strategies must, however, encompass more than just the reconstruction of physical infrastructure, increasing productivity, or the generation of employment opportunities. Critical and likely more thornier issues such as land tenure, returnee (re)integration, equitable natural resource access and management, and the effective dissemination of climate-smart and resilient technologies for adaptation are equally essential undertakings if the sector’s recovery is to be sustainable in the long-term.
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spelling CGSpace1787442025-12-12T02:05:35Z Leveraging agricultural revitalisation for peace: Post-conflict recovery, agri-food systems, and food security in Syria Schapendonk, Frans Rabie, Sara Jaskolski, Martina climate change adaptation food security peacebuilding conflict sensitivity Syria’s embattled new government faces a catalogue of competing short-, medium-, and long-term recovery priorities. Agriculture remains, despite extensive damage to agricultural lands and irrigation infrastructure, the backbone of Syria’s rural economy. Its critical pre-war contribution to domestic food security, employment, and Syria’s export economy means a reconstituted agricultural sector has the potential to become an important engine for broader post-conflict recovery. Agricultural reconstruction and recovery strategies must, however, encompass more than just the reconstruction of physical infrastructure, increasing productivity, or the generation of employment opportunities. Critical and likely more thornier issues such as land tenure, returnee (re)integration, equitable natural resource access and management, and the effective dissemination of climate-smart and resilient technologies for adaptation are equally essential undertakings if the sector’s recovery is to be sustainable in the long-term. 2025-12 2025-12-11T14:33:29Z 2025-12-11T14:33:29Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178744 en Open Access application/pdf Schapendonk, F.; Rabie, S.; Jaskolski, M. (2025) Leveraging agricultural revitalisation for peace: Post-conflict recovery, agri-food systems, and food security in Syria. Policy Brief, 27 p.
spellingShingle climate change adaptation
food security
peacebuilding
conflict sensitivity
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Rabie, Sara
Jaskolski, Martina
Leveraging agricultural revitalisation for peace: Post-conflict recovery, agri-food systems, and food security in Syria
title Leveraging agricultural revitalisation for peace: Post-conflict recovery, agri-food systems, and food security in Syria
title_full Leveraging agricultural revitalisation for peace: Post-conflict recovery, agri-food systems, and food security in Syria
title_fullStr Leveraging agricultural revitalisation for peace: Post-conflict recovery, agri-food systems, and food security in Syria
title_full_unstemmed Leveraging agricultural revitalisation for peace: Post-conflict recovery, agri-food systems, and food security in Syria
title_short Leveraging agricultural revitalisation for peace: Post-conflict recovery, agri-food systems, and food security in Syria
title_sort leveraging agricultural revitalisation for peace post conflict recovery agri food systems and food security in syria
topic climate change adaptation
food security
peacebuilding
conflict sensitivity
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178744
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