Linkages between Urbanization, Rural–Urban Migration and Poverty Outcomes in Africa

Urbanization and changes in farm size in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia from a geographical perspective, a review of the literature A Foresight Study of the Independent Science and Partnership Council

Foresight Studies analyze emerging issues and trends with the objective of quantifying the research challenge and the potential impact for agricultural research. The past century has entailed a relatively speaking rapid redistribution as well as growth of urban populations, with the urban population surpassing the rural one for the first time in 2008. Processes of urban growth and their implica...

Urbanization, Rural–urban Migration and Urban Poverty

Rural-urban migration and socioeconomic development in Ghana: some discussions.

This article presents a discussion of rural-urban migration as a source of social and behavioral change in Ghana. It explores the extent to which the urban social environment in Ghana generates conflicts for migrants with a different value orientation and the degree of influence of the urban social environment on migrants' behavior. The first part of the discussion focuses on the nature of Gh...

Working Paper Series on Rural-Urban Interactions and Livelihood Strategies WORKING PAPER 12 Rural-urban migration in China: policy options for economic growth, environmental sustainability and equity

In China, as in many other countries undergoing rapid economic growth, increasing socio-economic inequalities and environmental damage are the main threats to sustainable urbanization. Drawing on international experiences, this paper describes the key issues in urban change in China and identifies the types of policy approaches that could support more sustainable urbanization. Urbanization and ...

Migration, AIDS, and Urban Food Security in Southern and Eastern Africa: Case Studies in Namibia, South Africa, and Ethiopia

Introduction M igration, AIDS epidemics, and urban food security, interact in complex ways that are little researched and understood in the Southern and Eastern African context. To date, research on urban food security has been concerned with urban systems of acquisition and production, with an emphasis on the informal sector and more recently on urban agriculture. Much less attention has been ...