Search Results - City and town

Food mapping approaches for understanding food system transformations in rapid-growth city regions in the Global South by Liddy, Heidi, Mowlds, Sinead, McKeown, Peter C., Lundy, Mark M., Spillane, Charles

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Agriculture and small towns in Africa by Dorosh, Paul A., Thurlow, James

“…Africa's current urbanization pattern—toward major cities rather than towns—will weaken national growth–poverty linkages. …”
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Exploring the significance of treated wastewater reuse in urban agriculture and resilient cities: a bibliometric analysis by Sei, L. K., Belle, J., Mshelia, Z., Dirwai, Tinashe Lindel

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A green lung for the Stone Town by Hall, Anna

“…Another aim has been to inspire a development and change of the many unused and/or abandoned open spaces that exist in Stone Town today. This has been done through studying different types of open spaces in Stone Town and their contexts. …”
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Food flows and the roles of cities in West African food distribution networks by Karg, H., Bouscarat, J., Akoto-Danso, E. K., Heinrigs, P., Drechsel, Pay, Amprako, L., Buerkert, A.

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The nexus approach as a tool for resources management in resilient cities and multifunctional land-use systems by Hulsmann, S., Jampani, Mahesh

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Cities and dominance: Urban strategies for political settlement maintenance and change: Zambia case study by Hinfelaar, Marja, Resnick, Danielle, Sishuwa, Sishuwa

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The last will be first: water transfers from agriculture to cities in the Pangani River Basin, Tanzania by Komakech, H.C., Zaag, P. van der, van Koppen, Barbara

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Quantification of groundwater storage variation in Himalayan & Peninsular river basins correlating with land deformation effects observed at different Indian cities by Sarkar, T., Karunakalage, Anuradha, Kannaujiya, S., Chaganti, C.

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Secondary towns, agricultural prices, and intensification: Evidence from Ethiopia by Vandercasteelen, Joachim, Tamru, Seneshaw, 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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Selling to the cities by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Thanks to rapid urban expansion in ACP States, farmers are shipping more and more food to capital cities, and towns. This could be a great stimulus to agricultural production ? …”
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Livelihoods, growth, and links to market towns in 15 Ethiopian villages by Dercon, Stefan, Hoddinott, John F.

“…...In our results, market towns and cities are an important source of demand for products produced in rural areas, and rural residents are a source of demand for goods sold in urban areas. …”
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Livelihoods, growth, and links to market towns in 15 Ethiopian villages by Dercon, Stefan, Hoddinott, John F.

“…...In our results, market towns and cities are an important source of demand for products produced in rural areas, and rural residents are a source of demand for goods sold in urban areas. …”
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Urban and peri-urban farming systems: feeding cities and enhancing resilience by Lee-Smith, D., Prain, Gordon, Cofie, Olufunke O., Veenhuizen, R. van, Karanja, N.

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When power plants leave town: Environmental quality and the housing market in China by Deng, Guoying, Hernandez, Manuel A., Xu, Shu

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Zanzibar night light : a lighting plan for UNESCO World Heritage Zanzibar Stone Town by Carlstén, Freija

“…Zanzibar is considered to be the centre of Swahili culture, found all along the east coast of Africa. The main city, Stone Town, has for over a millennium constituted an important trading port, merging east African Bantu with Arab culture, adding elements from Persia, India and Europe (NE, 2017). …”

New urban room within the city of Kranj by Romih, Eva

“…It offers a pleasant atmosphere of a small town. Kranj, being the fourth biggest city in Slovenia, is the industrial, employment, traffic, educational, cultural and sports centre of Gorenjska. …”

Living in the city: challenges and options for the urban poor by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Over the next two decades 90 percent of population growth in developing countries will take place in the cities and towns. More than half of the population of Africa and Asia will live in urban areas by 2020. …”
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Urban waste and agriculture: a win-win for farmers and for the city? by Drechsel, Pay

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Managing change to implement integrated urban water management in African cities by Bahri, A., Brikke, F., Vairavamoorthy, Kalanithy

“…With increasing pressures from global changes (urbanization, climate change, etc.), cities in Africa will experience difficulties in efficiently managing water resources. …”
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