Search Results - City and town

Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia by Vandercasteelen, Joachim, Beyene, Seneshaw Temru, Minten, Bart, Swinnen, Johan

“…Urbanization is happening fast in the developing world and especially so in sub-Saharan Africa where growth rates of cities are among the highest in the world. While cities and, in particular, secondary towns, where most of the urban population in sub-Saharan Africa resides, affect agricultural practices in their rural hinterlands, this relationship is not well understood. …”
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Can cities or towns drive African development? Economywide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda by Dorosh, Paul A., Thurlow, James

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Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses by Bai, Xuemei, Hasan, Syezlin, Andersen, Lauren Seaby, Bjørn, Anders, Kilkiş, Şiir, Ospina, Daniel, Liu, Jianguo, Cornell, Sarah E., Sabag Muñoz, Oscar, de Bremond, Ariane, Crona, Beatrice, DeClerck, Fabrice, Gupta, Joyeeta, Hoff, Holger, Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Obura, David, Whiteman, Gail, Broadgate, Wendy, Lade, Steven J., Rocha, Juan, Rockström, Johan, Stewart-Koster, Ben, van Vuuren, Detlef, Zimm, Caroline

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Background paper (Annex 3: Linking Nutrition with Sustainable Cities and Communities - SDG 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable) by Garrett, J., Ruel, Marie T.

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Can cities or towns drive African development?: Economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda by Dorosh, Paul A., Thurlow, James

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Travel Time to Cities in Tanzania by International Food Policy Research Institute

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Political trust and informal traders in African cities by Resnick, Danielle, Sivasubramanian, Bhavna

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Rethinking China’s underurbanization: An evaluation of its county-to-city upgrading policy by Fan, Shenggen, Li, Lixing, Zhang, Xiaobo

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Impacts of city life on nutrition: Evidence From resettlement lotteries in China by Leng, Ganxiao, Qiu, Huanguang, Filipski, Mateusz J.

“…We find that those who were resettled to towns significantly increased both food consumption and diet variety, with increased intake of several macro- and micro-nutrients. …”
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Building a resilient city for whom? Learning from street vendors' gendered responses to urbanisation in Hanoi. by Kawarazuka, Nozomi

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Fuzzy-based approach for evaluating groundwater sustainability of Asian cities by Tirupathi, C., Shashidhar, T., Pandey, Vishnu P., Shrestha, S.

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In- and exclusion in urban food governance: Exploring networks and power in the city of Almere by Brons, Anke, Oosterveer, Peter, Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid C.O.

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Cities, value chains, and dairy production in Ethiopia by Vandercasteelen, Joachim, Minten, Bart, Tamru, Seneshaw

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Using global datasets to estimate flood exposure at the city scale: an evaluation in Addis Ababa by Carr, A. B., Trigg, M. A., Haile, Alemseged Tamiru, Bernhofen, M. V., Alemu, Abel Negussie, Bekele, Tilaye Worku, Walsh, C. L.

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The enabling environment for informal food traders in Nigeria’s secondary cities by Resnick, Danielle, Sivasubramanian, Bhavna, Idiong, Idiong Christopher, Ojo, Michael Akindele, Tanko, Likita

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Negotiating the social contract in urban Africa: Informal food traders in Ghanaian cities by Resnick, Danielle, Sivasubramanian, Bhavna

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Cities and agricultural transformation in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia by Vandercasteelen, Joachim, Beyene, Seneshaw Temru, Minten, Bart, Swinnen, Johan

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Spatial and temporal dynamics of croplands in expanding West African cities by Karg, H., Drechsel, Pay, Dittrich, N., Cauchois, A.

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Synopsis: The enabling environment for informal food traders in Nigeria’s secondary cities by Resnick, Danielle, Sivasubramanian, Bhavna, Idiong, Idiong Christopher, Ojo, Michael Akindele, Tanko, Likita

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Cities and rural transformation: A spatial analysis of rural livelihoods in Ghana by Diao, Xinshen, Magalhaes, Eduardo, Silver, Jed

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