Urban transformations and rural-city connections in Africa

Agergaard, Jytte; Ortenbjerg, Sinne Borby

doi:10.1080/00167223.2017.1367698

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“…Rapidly growing African cities face specific challenges in the food system, but also represent areas of high potential for transformative change. A city is a critical focus of social, economic, governance, and infrastructure networks in the surrounding landscape (Agergaard & Ortenbjerg, 2017;Andreasen, Agergaard, Kiunsi, & Namangaya, 2017;Marais & Cloete, 2017). The concentration of people, resources, knowledge, decision-making power, and infrastructure makes cities a crucial nexus point for transformative change.…”

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Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city

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“…Livelihood activities were dominated by fishing at most sites, but were diversified to include farming, collection and trade of mangrove poles and charcoal and small business enterprises. Unaite (2017) also found that 64 % of The mixed rural-urban form of living observed around Quelimane is common to many African towns and cities (Agergaard and Ortenbjerg, 2017;Agergaard et al, 2019) and elsewhere in the developing world (Sati et al, 2017;Shan et al, 2017). The inhabitants of newly urbanized areas are sometimes drawn back to rural livelihoods when unemployed, to supplement their income (Chibvongodze, 2013).…”

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Household dependence on fish-based farming systems in the Bons Sinais Estuary in Mozambique

Francisco

Hoguane

Simbine

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West Ind. Oc. J Mar. Sci.

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Households in estuarine deltas of the Western Indian Ocean depend on small-scale fishing, farming in flood-recession and adjacent areas, and mangrove forest products for food security, energy and an income in so-called deltaic fish-based farming (FBF) systems. It was hypothesized that the relative importance of household activities would depend on location along the Bons Sinais Estuary in Mozambique, diversifying in peri-urban settings. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken at five sites, including rural sites near the estuary mouth and upstream, and peri-urban settings near Quelimane city. Fishing contributed the most to FBF livelihoods (54 %) followed by farming (15 %), small business operators (14 %), collection and use of mangrove products (6 %) and other activities such as wage-earning or formal employment (10 %). The highest diversity of activities was at a peri-urban site, Chuabo Dembe, which differed from all other sites in Cluster and Principal Components Analyses. Fishing dominated activities at four of five sites, with the highest preponderance near the estuary mouth. Women played an important role in generating household income, mainly through farming and operating small businesses in peri-urban areas. The education level declined in rural settings. Overexploitation and degradation of natural ecosystems to provide for an increasing urban population around Quelimane threaten estuarine functioning, making deltaic FBF systems vulnerable. Rural development programmes should focus on improving education levels and the efficiency of food production, processing and distribution systems.

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“…The urban-suburban connection can be explained from the perspective of city flow, which refers to both direct flows, such people mobility, and implicit flows, such as telecommunication connections. Existing studies on urban-suburban interactions have focused on quantifying the connection based on selected indicators, such as population migration, mobility, and institutional linkage [74,75]. Generally, the dependence of both areas and the respondent results from such interactions are neglected.…”

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The Effect of Urban-Suburban Interaction on Urbanization and Suburban Ecological Security: A Case Study of Suburban Wuhan, Central China

Tian

Wang

2020

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In developing countries like China, urbanization is still occurring at a rapid pace. During urbanization, the urban land expands drastically, which makes suburbs the most affected area facing urban expansion. The land transition has proven to threaten the function and security of ecosystems, and therefore the topics of suburban land transition and ecological security have raised much attention. However, the urban-suburban interaction, which is one of the basic characteristics of suburbs, has been insufficiently considered. The urban-suburban interaction is developed based on the flows of people, materials, and information between urban and suburban areas, and it essentially reveals the relationship between human activities and land-use optimization. To fill the research gap, this study adopts a case study of Wuhan city, and first quantifies the urban-suburban interactions from a symbiotic perspective, and investigates rural residents and public buses to verify the estimated interactions. The results show that there is obvious heterogeneity in urban-suburban interactions in different suburban towns. Correlation analysis and geographic weight regression are then applied to demonstrate the relationship between the urban-suburban interaction and urbanization in the suburbs. Additionally, urbanization potential in the suburbs is estimated. Then, a suburban ecological security assessment is conducted by a "pressure-status-response" (PSR) model, and the urbanization potential that is estimated based on urban-suburban interaction is integrated as a "pressure" indicator. The comparison between the suburban ecological security assessment results based on considering and not considering urban-suburban interaction demonstrates the importance of considering urban-suburban interaction. This study contributes to the understanding of the complicated relationships of urban-suburban socio-economic, spatial, and ecological environments, and offers suggestions for suburban planning and ecological protection.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1600 2 of 22 and ecological threat [2][3][4][5]. Hence, studies on urban-suburban interaction have caught much attention in recent years.Despite the existing studies on urban-suburban interaction analysis, the effects of such interactions on land transition and the eco-environment are insufficiently discussed. Land transition is one of the biggest challenges that the suburbs face in both developing and developed countries. In developing countries, urbanization is occurring at a rapid pace and is accompanied by fast urban land expansion. During this process, a large amount of ecological land transits into the urban area, including natural land and cropland [6][7][8]. Developed countries also confront similar problems. For example, Salvati, et al. [9] concluded that the urban expansion in discontinuous and low-density Mediterranean regions threatens soil quality and vulnerable ecologies. Ustaoglu and Williams [10] pointed out that there is a significant land conversion from agricultural land to urban land i...

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Urban transformations and rural-city connections in Africa

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city

Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city

Household dependence on fish-based farming systems in the Bons Sinais Estuary in Mozambique

The Effect of Urban-Suburban Interaction on Urbanization and Suburban Ecological Security: A Case Study of Suburban Wuhan, Central China

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