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The Countryside dream : amenity Migration and the new transit-oriented communities by Romé, Emelie

“…The phenomenon of amenity migration – the migration to a new, more appealing everyday environment considered to have more amenities, is very relevant today since many smaller communities are becoming more transit-oriented, allowing the inmigrants to work in some bigger, dense town while living in a small-scale, less dense semi-rural community. …”

Economic crisis and forest cover change in Cameroon: the role of migration, crop diversification, and gender division labor by Sunderlin, William D., Pokam, J.

“…Among the key findings are that: (1) on average, population in the villages has grown considerably in response to inmigration, slowed rural to urban migration, and recent net “return” migration; (2) there has been a massive turn to production of food crops; (3) new food crop production tended to be at the expense of forest cover because many farmers retained their cocoa and coffee plots; (4) men are now highly involved in the production of food crops; and (5) the amount of forest clearing in 1996 was largely a function of increased food crop production and distance from the capital city. …”
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