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  1. Library Resource

    Volume 10 Issue 2

    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2021
    Ethiopia

    As the global population continues to urbanize, increasing pressure is put upon urban centers and the carrying capacity of the already built-up areas. One way to meet these demands is horizontal expansion, which requires new lands to become incorporated into urban centers. In most cases, this demand is met by converting peri-urban land into urban land as the urban center expands. These processes of expansion into the peri-urban, however, create tension regarding land use and land rights, and may foster tenure insecurity if not well managed.

  2. Library Resource

    Mozambique

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    April, 2012
    Mozambique, Africa

    Mozambique, the only Lusophone country covered in the agribusiness indicators initiative, has had a turbulent history since independence. Civil unrest over some 20 years and frequent drought in southern Mozambique, coupled with floods near the many waterways that transect the country (mainly east-west), have inhibited an agricultural transformation. Even so, Mozambique could be a regional breadbasket. The country has much potentially usable arable land, along with access to river water for irrigation in many agricultural production zones, particularly in central and northern Mozambique.

  3. Library Resource

    Agricultural Sector Risk Assessment

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    November, 2015
    Kenya

    Despite myriad challenges, Kenya has emerged in recent years as one of Africa’s frontier economies, with headline growth in the most recent decade propelling the country toward middle-income status. Less well understood is how risk dynamics associated with production, markets, and policy adversely impact sector performance, in terms of both influencing ex ante decision making among farmers, traders, and other sector stakeholders and causing ex post losses to crops, livestock, and incomes - destabilizing livelihoods and jeopardizing the country’s food security.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Ethiopia

    This study analyzes urban expansion and the peri-urban land tenure security situation in Amhara National Regional State of Ethiopia, taking Bahir Dar and Debre Markos as case studies. To detect the extent of urban expansion, data from Landsat satellite images were analyzed using ERDAS IMAGINE, ENVI, and ArcGIS segmentation, classification, and mapping tools. The land tenure security situation was assessed through interviews with local farmers.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1997
    Philippines, Eritrea, Italy, Africa, Asia
  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2008
    Tanzania

    Dar es Salaam is one of the fastest growing cities in sub-Saharan Africa. In its rapidly expanding peri-urban fringe poor migrants from distant rural areas settle down on plots they can afford that provide access to urban markets. They engage in commercial poultry farming establishing sustainable livelihoods and improving food security in the city.

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Zambia

    The report documents poverty in Zamia
    along a number of dimensions, including material
    deprivation, human deprivation, vulnerability, destitution,
    and social stigmatization. The report identified a number of
    basic actions to facilitate growth in the rural sector;
    these include (1) a (revived) system of regular manual
    maintenance of rural roads; (2) simple systems of animal
    disease control; animal movement control; health inspection

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Ethiopia

    This report presents an update on the
    economic challenges facing Ethiopia with a focus on the
    shared goal of accelerating equitable growth. The starting
    point is the Government's own Plan for Accelerated and
    Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP), which is in
    the process of finalization, and is designed to cover the
    period 2005-2010. This report proposes that the growth
    strategy should more explicitly adopt a

  9. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Zambia

    Despite positive, relatively broad-based
    and stable growth record in recent years and immense
    untapped potential in agriculture, mining and services,
    Zambia's poverty rates have not declined significantly
    and remain high. Income growth is limited by coordination
    failures such as poor access to domestic and international
    markets, inputs, extension services and information. High
    indirect costs - most of which attributable to

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