Food Remittances: Migration and Food Security in Africa

Crush, Jonathan; Caesar, Mary

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“…Resources and services flow are significant to urban-rural linkages [3,7,[29][30][31]. Natural resources include minerals, timber and forest products (wild foods), water, and land [3,29,32].…”

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Challenges and Potential Solutions for Sustainable Urban-Rural Linkages in a Ghanaian Context

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Urban-rural linkages are an integral part of fostering development in both urban and rural communities. However, the focus on development tends to have an urban bias toward Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with an increase in urbanization. Ghana is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in SSA. This paper sought to identify the challenges of urban-rural linkages, their corresponding solutions, and contributions to Agenda 2030 that are context-specific to Ghana through a stepwise solution scanning technique. In step 1, the study applied a scoping process to identify the urban-rural challenges. In step 2, a solution for the identified urban-rural challenges in step 1 was co-designed. In step 3, each identified solution was assessed based on its potential to contribute to all three pillars of sustainability by ranking and prioritization. In step 4, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) interlinkages of the top five prioritized potential solutions were analyzed. The identified challenges were (1) inequality and gender gaps, (2) poor and lack of basic and economic infrastructures, (3) the limited effectiveness of decentralization, and (4) food and nutrition security dynamics. The prioritized potential solutions were gender inclusiveness, investment in infrastructures, sustainable agricultural systems, effective decentralization, and financial inclusion. This study recommends maximizing the synergies and minimizing the trade-offs between the SDGs of the potential solutions identified.

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Challenges and Potential Solutions for Sustainable Urban-Rural Linkages in a Ghanaian Context

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“…The paper explores the connection between two top global development issues: migration‐remittances and food security in African countries. In the scarcity of systematic reflection on the relationship between migration‐remittances and food security, the connections seem obvious (Crush, ; Crush and Caesar, ). However, the two fields are strongly related and can influence each other.…”

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Remittances and Food Security in African Countries

Mabrouk¹,

Mekni²

2018

African Development Review

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Over the past decade, the amount of migrant remittances received by developing countries has increased rapidly.Several studies have analysed the impacts on growth, investment, education, and health. However, the effect on food security has not received much attention. This paper contributes to the literature by exploring the linkage between food security and international remittances using panel data during the period of 1990-2013 in African countries. The study employs an econometric model to test the impact of remittances on food security through four channels: availability, access, utilization and stability. Results show a positive link for access, stability and utilization dimensions but a negative link for availability. Relationship between received remittances and the enhancement of food security seems to be mixed.

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“…Just over one-third of the households in a five-country SAMP survey had also received goods in the previous year (Table 13). 52…”

Section: Migration and Remittancesmentioning

confidence: 99%