abstractagriculture is considered as one of the important sectors of economic. that in the production of food and industrial crops may play an important role in economic development. in this regard human resource is very important. so that quantitative and qualitative changes in the human resources can lead to major changes in agricultural production and it influences completely agricultural pr...

Climate change, especially the warming trend experienced by several countries, could a¤ect agricultural productivity. As a consequence, rural incomes will change, and with them the incentives for people to remain in rural areas. Using data from 116 countries between 1960 and 2000, we analyze the e¤ect of di¤erential warming trends across countries on the probability of either migrating out of t...

Abstract The scale of climate migration across the Global South is expected to increase during this century. By 2050, millions Africans are likely consider, or be pushed into, because hazards contributing agricultural disruption, water and food scarcity, desertification, flooding, drought, coastal erosion, heat waves. However, migration-climate nexus complex, as question whether can considered ...

BACKGROUND Using a cohort of British Columbian male sawmill workers, we conducted a nested case-control study of the impact of rural compared to urban residence as well as rural/urban migration patterns in relation to hospitalization for non-work injury. We postulate that for many types of non-work injuries, rates will be higher in rural communities than in urban ones and that rates will also b...

the natural result of the application of modernization approach in developing countries is the formation and development of large-scale migration from rural to urban areas. this has changed the sex structure of population in a number of rural settlements in the country. as the current situation maintains, it is clear that women will be the main beneficiaries of the development plans in rural ar...

BACKGROUND China has been experiencing the largest rural to urban migration in history. Rural-to-urban migrants are those who leave their hometown for another place in order to work or live without changing their hukou status, which is a household registration system in China, categorizing people as either rural residents or urban residents. Rural-to-urban migrants typically find better job opp...

The contribution of migration to population changes in Botswana is analyzed. Consideration is given to international migration, internal migration, rural-urban migration, and the socioeconomic characteristics of migrants. The data are primarily for the years 1980-1981 and are from the 1981 census.

OBJECTIVE To quantify the space-time dimensions of human mobility in relationship to the risk of HIV acquisition. METHODS We used data from the population cohort located in a high HIV prevalence, rural population in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2000-2014). We geolocated 8006 migration events (representing 1 028 782 km traveled) for 17 743 individuals (≥15 years of age) who were HIV negative a...

   The main purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing immigration from rural to urban areas in Varkaneh , a famous village and tourist destination located in western part of Iran- Hamedan. A questionnaire was designed and validated by a panel of experts from Extension Education Dept. of Bu-Ali Sina University and Hamadan Jihad of Agriculture. Its reliability was secured by Cronba...

This article studies the impact of internal migration and remittance flows on wealth accumulation and distribution in 51 rural villages in Nang Rong, Thailand. Using data from 5,449 households, the study constructs indices of household productive and consumer assets with principal component analysis. The changes in these indices from 1994 to 2000 are modeled as a function of households' prior m...