Small Town Africa: Studies in rural-urban interaction

Urban-Rural Inequality in Africa

Rural and Small Town Library Management Challenges

ISSN: 0161-6846 (Print) 1541-1540 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wplq20 Rural and Small Town Library Management Challenges Rachel K. Fischer To cite this article: Rachel K. Fischer (2015) Rural and Small Town Library Management Challenges, Public Library Quarterly, 34:4, 354-371, DOI: 10.1080/01616846.2015.1106899 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/016...

Urban Settlements: Case Studies in South Africa

Internationally, settlement informality (informal housing and informal settlements) is increasing, not decreasing. Thus, according to United Nations estimates, there are currently 924 million people living in various forms of slums and unauthorized or informal settlements (UN Habitat, 2003, p2). In Sub-Saharan Africa 71,9% of urban dwellers lived in slums (ibid). In South Africa, official gover...

Small Farms, Livelihood Diversification, and Rural-Urban Transitions: Strategic Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nevertheless, the persistence, and even deepening, in Sub-Saharan Africa of a type of small farming that is getting smaller all the time and that demonstrates an even greater orientation toward low-level subsistence than was the case 20 or 30 years ago should be of great concern to all those working on poverty reduction objectives in the continent. The dynamics of small farming in Africa are po...

Urban/rural differences in diet and atopy in South Africa.

BACKGROUND There are large differences in the prevalence of atopic disease between urban and rural areas of developing countries, without good explanation. Diet has been associated with atopic disease, but studies of specific nutrients are contradictory, cross-sectional studies often being unsupported by trials. We investigated diet as an explanation for the difference in the prevalence of atop...