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Chapter 3
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Rebuilding Seed and Food
Systems
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"There is a critical interdependence between sustainable
development and human security. Mechanisms of social stability
and societal justice usually develop hand in hand
with improvements in living standards."
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-Road Map Towards the
Implementation of the
United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2001,
UN Secretary General's Report, para. 34
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hen
the agricultural pedestal of a developing nation's economy is
toppled by conflict or natural disaster, it must be righted
quickly, because lives depend on it. But aid must be provided
in ways that build people's capacity to care for themselves
rather than create dependency. |
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CGIAR Centers have been playing an increasing role in helping
nations rebuild their agriculture after conflict and disaster
over the past three decades. Much of this work has revolved
around the restoration of seed and production systems of basic
food crops. |
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| Sub-Saharan
Africa |
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| Rwanda:
Seeds of Hope |
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one of the best-known examples of the CGIAR's engagement in
rebuilding a country shattered by war has been the case of Rwanda.
The Rwanda nightmare was a brutal example of the new type of
post-Cold War `stagnation' conflict. Poverty, political unrest
and economic stagnation fueled hopelessness and ethnic hatred
(see Chapter 1 in this report, and p. 24-25 in Messer et al.
1998). |
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Beans were vital to
Rwanda's agricultural recovery. Photo: CIAT |
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