Fostering Rural Urban Relationships to Enhance More Resilient and Just Communities

Abstract

The definition of food security within the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is based on the statement from the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action: FAO's formal definition of food security is "when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life" (FAO 1996).Aiming to ensure food security for all, at all times, the World Food Summit (FAO 1996) declared seven commitments:

Network Governance Arrangements and Rural-Urban Synergy

“…This is natural since over 90% of the world's rural population lives in less developed regions that are undergoing rapid demographic, economic, and governance changes [13]. There have also been some attempts to understand the rural-urban linkages in the US (e.g., [14]) and Europe from the socioeconomic and partnerships perspective (e.g., [1,2]), as well as that of resilience and sustainability (e.g., [15]). Typically, studies concentrate on certain aspects of the rural-urban interaction, for example, commuting, landscapes and migration [16].…”

Rural-urban co-governance: multi-scale practice

“…(7) Community is appropriate to act as the basic unit of ruralurban co-governance practice. Community increasingly becomes the implementation point of various policies, the intersection of various interests, the foothold of various organizations, and the gathering point of various contradictions [12]. As a basic and important part of the national governance system, community governance represents the return of public power from government to people.…”