Chapter Five
Refugees and Conflict-Affected People
Integrating Displaced Communities into Food Systems
Rob Vos, Julius Jackson, Sally James, and Marco V. Sánchez
Humanitarian interventions that have the greatest likelihood of success involve investing in local agrifood systems and including conflict-affected people in strategies for building, reviving, or strengthening these systems.
KEY FINDINGS
- More than half of all undernourished people live in countries affected by conflict.
- Food insecurity and dispossession of agricultural assets can both trigger and result from civil strife.
- Most conflict-affected countries are overwhelmingly rural, and rural populations are more vulnerable to climate shocks that often compound conflict situations.
- Refugee host countries must often decide whether to focus responses on preparing affected populations to return home or helping them become economically self-reliant.
- Integrating conflict-affected people into food systems— either in their new homes or the places they fled—can help them rebuild their lives.
KEY RECOMMENDATIONS
- Provide long-term refugees access to land and livelihoods to help them achieve food security while also strengthening local economies.
- Rebuild local agriculture and food value chains to help conflict-affected people move beyond subsistence agriculture, rejoin exchange markets, adopt climate-smart practices, and become resilient to economic and climatic shocks.
- Protect agriculture, food production, and rural livelihoods before, during, and after conflict.
Browse Chapters
Chapter One
Reshaping Food Systems
Chapter Two
Smallholders and Rural People
Chapter Three
Youth
Chapter Four
Women
Chapter Five
Refugees and Conflict-Affected People
Chapter Six
National Food Systems
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