Livelihood diversification and rural-urban linkages in Vietnam’s Red River Delta
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Publisher: IIED
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 1843695464
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The Rural-urban Nexus in Migration and Livelihoods Diversification
Author: Abeje Berhanu
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9994455699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe objective of this study is to investigate the linkage between migration and livelihood diversification with emphasis on the socio-economic and structural processes that impact on rural to urban migration. The specific objectives include: to explore the factors affecting rural to urban migration by focusing on household assets and social attachment variables; to examine the different ways by which migration affects rural households' livelihoods and vice versa; to examine rural-urban linkages using migration with the aim of contributing to efforts to understand the migration process in the Amhara region; and to investigate the impact, direct or indirect, of government policy on trends of rural to urban migration in Ethiopia.
Sustainable Rural Livelihoods
Author: Diana Carney
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers presented at the Department for International Development's Natural Advisers' Conference, July 1998.
Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India
Author: Prabhu Pingali
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 3030144097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity along with micro-nutrient deficiency portend to a future public health crisis. This book explores various challenges and opportunities to achieve a nutrition-secure future through diversified production systems, improved health and hygiene environment and greater individual capability to access a balanced diet contributing to an increase in overall productivity. The authors bring together the latest data and scientific evidence from the country to map out the current state of food systems and nutrition outcomes. They place India within the context of other developing country experiences and highlight India’s status as an outlier in terms of the persistence of high levels of stunting while following global trends in obesity. This book discusses the policy and institutional interventions needed for promoting a nutrition-sensitive food system and the multi-sectoral strategies needed for simultaneously addressing the triple burden of malnutrition in India.
Climate Change, Hazards and Adaptation Options
Author: Walter Leal Filho
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-02-14
Total Pages: 1066
ISBN-13: 3030374254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the issue of climate change risks and hazards holistically. Climate change adaptation aims at managing climate risks and hazards to an acceptable level, taking advantage of any positive opportunities that may arise. At the same time, developing suitable responses to hazards for communities and users of climate services is important in ensuring the success of adaptation measures. But despite this, knowledge about adaptation options, including possible actions that can be implemented to improve adaptation and reduce the impacts of climate change hazards, is still limited. Addressing this need, the book presents studies and research findings and offers a catalogue of potential adaptation options that can be explored. It also includes case studies providing illustrative and inspiring examples of how we can adapt to a changing climate.
Rural Livelihoods and Diversity in Developing Countries
Author: Frank Ellis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-06-29
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780198296966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRural families in developing countries make a living by engaging in diverse activities. These range from farming, to rural trade, to migration to distant cities and even abroad. This book explores the implications of rural livelihood diversity for key topics in development studies and for poverty reduction policies. The livelihoods approach is gaining momentum, and this is the first book to set it out in detail.
Rural-Urban Linkages and Sustainable Development in Africa
Author: Shogo Kudo
Publisher: Spears Media Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1942876297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book highlights the important role of the complex nature of interactions between rural and urban areas in Africa and how this relates to sustainable development on the continent – one with a fast urbanization rate. The volume critiques the widely held assumption of a societal divide where rural areas are mostly agricultural, whilst urban areas engage in industry and services. Contributors provide conceptual arguments and present case studies in Africa which illustrate the complex and multifaceted interdependencies between cities and rural areas, through the flow of natural resources, people, capital, information, goods and services which directly impacts the socio-ecological as well as economic sustainability of these spaces. This volume forms part of an Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) book series involving the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability and 8 partner African universities running Master’s Programs in sustainable development. The book series is intended to serve primarily as undergraduate and graduate instruction materials for courses on sustainable development in Africa, as well as policy input to key developmental issues in Africa.
Rural-Urban Linkages for Sustainable Development
Author: Armin Kratzer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-23
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1000175715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book critically examines different forms of urban-rural links for sustainable development in different countries. As intertwined processes of globalization, digitalization, environmental challenges and the search for sustainable development continue, rural and urban areas around the world become increasingly interconnected and interdependent. This book contributes to understanding the role of this growing interconnectedness from an economic geographical perspective. It does so by theoretically and empirically addressing the various existing linkages, such as food networks, value chains, and regional governance at local, regional, national and international levels. In doing so, contributions extend and contrast existing approaches dealing with urban and rural areas separately by considering the interplay between these two as well as their consequences for sustainability transition pathways. This edited volume adds to the academic and policy debate by bringing together a variety of concepts and themes in order to shift the research and policy agenda away from simple dichotomy to different notions of rural-urban linkages. Offering multidisciplinary insights into rural-urban linkages, the book will be of interest to decision-makers, practitioners and researchers in the fields of economic geography, regional planning, food studies and economics.
The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages
Author: Cecilia Tacoli
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1317762673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith accelerating urbanization and growing inter-dependence of rural and urban dwellers on the markets and resources they each offer, rural urban linkages have become a very important focus in recent years for research and policy relating to local and national economic development, poverty reduction and governance. The emergence of new livelihoods based on diversified income sources and mobility reflects profound social, cultural and economic transformations, and new forms of resource allocation and use. This volume collects the key contributions in the field, covering the conceptual background, the key issues and the current debates, locating different approaches in their wider intellectual and historical contexts. It also includes important recent empirical work from all the relevant geographical regions that that will be the basis for future thinking. Fifteen papers are clearly organized around the principal themes and accompanied by a valuable editorial introduction clearly setting out the issues, the arguments and the evidence. Suggestions for further reading and additional information sources are also included. Published with IIED.
Rural-Urban Dynamics
Author: Jytte Agergaard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-09-11
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1135256993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia.
