Conflict-induced displacement as a catalyst for agricultural innovation: Findings from South Sudan

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dc.contributor.authorLeonardo, Elias
dc.contributor.authorDorward, Peter T.
dc.contributor.authorGarforth, Chris J.
dc.contributor.authorSutcliffe, Chloe
dc.contributor.authorVan Hulst, Freddy
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-16T17:11:50Z
dc.date.available2019-12-16T17:11:50Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-19
dc.description.abstractThis article explores how conflict-induced displacement influences agricultural innovation processes and systems, and its implications after the return home or permanent resettlement of smallholder farmers. Results show that high rates of agricultural innovation occurred during displacement in the Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005), many of which were maintained afterwards. Respondents cited the need for adaptation to new social and physical circumstances, changed gender roles, and enhanced inter-household communication as contributing to increased opportunities for knowledge exchange, trade, and importantly, the development of new networks, modes of organisation and social norms. Furthermore, returnees to South Sudan have embodied these changes together with new values, habits and expectations. New linkages continued across borders between returnees and non-returnees, facilitating knowledge exchange and access to resources, markets and sources of ideas. A high degree of autonomous innovation capacity was also evident. Further research is required on the dynamics and processes associated with innovation in conflict-induced displacement. It is important for policy makers to encourage approaches that seek to actively tap into and build on the institutional, human and social capital built during displacement.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationLeonardo E, Dorward P, Garforth C, et al., (2020) Conflict-induced displacement as a catalyst for agricultural innovation: Findings from South Sudan. Land Use Policy, Volume 90, January 2020, Article number 104272en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0264-8377
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104272
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/14849
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectAgricultural Innovationen_UK
dc.subjectInstitutionsen_UK
dc.subjectExtensionen_UK
dc.subjectPost-conflicten_UK
dc.subjectMigrationen_UK
dc.subjectConflicten_UK
dc.titleConflict-induced displacement as a catalyst for agricultural innovation: Findings from South Sudanen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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