Bridging the rural-urban dichotomy in land use science

Vliet, Jasper van; Birch‐Thomsen, Torben; Gallardo, Marta; Hemerijckx, Lisa‐Marie; Hersperger, Anna M.; Li, Mengmeng; Tumwesigye, Samuel; Twongyirwe, Ronald; Rompaey, Anton Van

doi:10.1080/1747423x.2020.1829120

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“…Moreover, the strict distinction between rural and urban areas is in reality more of a gradient, as many locations combine characteristcs of both rural and urban areas (e.g. van Vliet et al ( 2020 ); Tacoli ( 2003 )).…”

Section: Impacts Of Urbanisation On Food Systemsmentioning

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Urbanisation as driver of food system transformation and opportunities for rural livelihoods

Bruin

Dengerink²,

Vliet

2021

Food Sec.

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Urbanisation is changing food systems globally, and in particular in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This transformation can affect rural livelihoods in multiple ways. Evidence on what enabling conditions are needed to materialise the opportunities and limit risks is scattered. Here we review scientific literature to elaborate on how urbanisation affects food systems, and on the enabling conditions that subsequently shape opportunities for rural livelihoods. We find that urbanisation leads to a rising and changing food demand, both direct and indirect land use changes, and often to more complex market linkages. Evidence shows that a wide range of enabling conditions can contribute to the materialisation of opportunities for rural livelihoods in this context. Reviewed evidence suggests that the connectivity to urban centres is pivotal, as it provides access to finance, inputs, information, services, and off-farm employment. As a result, physical and communication infrastructure, the spatial pattern of urbanisation, and social networks connecting farmers to markets are identified as important enabling factors for the improvement of rural livelihood outcomes. Our findings suggest that coordinated and inclusive efforts are needed at different scales to make sure rural livelihoods benefit from urbanisation and food system transformation.

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Section: Impacts Of Urbanisation On Food Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urbanisation as driver of food system transformation and opportunities for rural livelihoods

Bruin

Dengerink²,

Vliet

2021

Food Sec.

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“…The traditional concept of urban and rural areas defines them as distinct entities, and their main connection in terms of land use is through flows of agricultural products from rural to urban areas (Seto et al, 2012). A study on the rural-urban dichotomy by land use argues that land should be characterised along a gradient from rural to urban and suggests the need for inclusive approaches (Van Vliet et al, 2020).…”

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Effect of Distance to Train Station and Mobile Coverage on Land Value: A Case of Tax Valuation in Oreamuno, Costa Rica

Molina

Gómez

Thompson

et al. 2022

Baltic Journal of Real Estate Economics and Construction Management

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In Costa Rica, a land tax valuation model provided by the Technical Standardization Body (ONT) of the Ministry of Finance is used. This model considers homogeneous areas that include properties with similar characteristics and review factors that have not been recently updated. The objective of this article is to determine the effect of the distance to the train station and mobile coverage on the value of land in Oreamuno, Costa Rica, as a proposal to be included in the mass valuation model of the ONT. A multiple regression econometric model was used to establish the functional relationship between the value of the property and its characteristics, through the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method, using 10 variables applied to 200 references initially. The results allow demonstrating that other variables such as “Distance to the train station” and “Mobile coverage” are representative for determining the value of properties, in addition to those commonly used by the ONT model. The research allows concluding that the land valuation models should be updated periodically and should include variables related to improvements in technology and access roads, since these increase the market value of properties and improve the social development of localities in study.

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“…This rural-urban gradient did not develop linearly from the city center. Informal settlements represent complex patterns of migration, and Vliet et al in 2020 [7] regard it as a multidirectional process that further blurs the distinction between rural and urban. This rural-urban gradient is neither a gradual transformation of the territory nor a continuum in geography-tenants in the informal settlements are "trans-local".…”

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Incomplete Urbanization and the Trans-Local Rural-Urban Gradient in China: From a Perspective of New Economics of Labor Migration

Liu

2022

Land

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The urbanization in China is “incomplete” and the migration of non-hukou migrants is circular, wherein rural migrants often keep their rural land in the home village as a social safety net. The informal housing market is one of the main housing providers for migrant workers. Existing studies see informal housing as the migrants’ passive choice under the discriminatory hukou system, while underplaying the migrants’ familial multi-site tenure strategies between village homes and city places. As suggested by New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM), attachment to a place of origin (such as keeping hometown lands), while choosing informal housing at the destination, is a familial utility maximization strategy that can control risks when migrating between locations. Informal housing areas, therefore, become a trans-local rural-urban gradient and semi-urban landscape. We use the 2017 Migrant Dynamics Monitoring Survey data and the binary logistic regression to examine (a) whether hometown landowning is a significant predictor of the migrants’ choosing of a temporary stay in informal settlements in urban destinations, and (b) which kind of hometown land arrangement (farmland or homestead holding or both of them) is the strongest indicator of the higher probability of staying in informal settlements in urban destinations? The data analysis reveals that homestead in hometown is a more prominent pulling factor than farmland to “glue” rural migrants together within an integrated rural land “insurance regime” between the migrant-sending and -receiving places. The land-use and informal housing governance (including urban village demolition) ignore the trans-local nature of the migratory networks and semi-urbanizing dynamics. The traditional analysis of the rural-urban gradient with many landscapes should consider the functional and tenurial linkage between the locations at different points along with the complex migration activities.

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Bridging the rural-urban dichotomy in land use science

Cited by 36 publications

References 35 publications

Urbanisation as driver of food system transformation and opportunities for rural livelihoods

Urbanisation as driver of food system transformation and opportunities for rural livelihoods

Effect of Distance to Train Station and Mobile Coverage on Land Value: A Case of Tax Valuation in Oreamuno, Costa Rica

Incomplete Urbanization and the Trans-Local Rural-Urban Gradient in China: From a Perspective of New Economics of Labor Migration

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