Rural-based insurgencies disrupted the forest margins of Upper West Africa in the 1990s. A subsequent return to peace was accompanied by strong growth in small-scale trade in foodstuffs and other agrarian produce in high demand in towns. Motor cycle taxis are a feature of this increased rural–urban market integration. It was a mode of transport pioneered by ex-combatants. Where rural women were once attacked by rural young men without job prospects press ganged into fighting for the rebels, bike taxi riders now carry them to rural periodic markets, many of which are new since the end of conflict. The study provides an analytical account of these developments, drawing on discussions with villagers in three heavily war-affected localities of Sierra Leone. The evidence indicates that communities divided by conflict have quietly built new cooperative links conducive to peace based on local agricultural production and petty trade.

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城乡连接加强农业和平：来自塞拉利昂性别和摩托车出租车研究的证据

1990 年代，基于农村的叛乱破坏了上西非的森林边缘。随后的和平回归伴随着城镇需求量很大的食品和其他农产品的小规模贸易的强劲增长。摩托车出租车是这种日益增强的城乡市场一体化的一个特征。这是前战斗人员开创的一种运输方式。农村妇女曾经遭到没有工作前景的农村青年男子的袭击，他们与压力联合为反叛分子而战，现在骑自行车的人将她们带到农村定期市场，其中许多是冲突结束后的新市场。该研究利用与塞拉利昂三个受战争严重影响地区的村民的讨论，对这些发展进行了分析。