The urban food system in Ghana is changing, with growth in household incomes and rapid urbanization. Such shifts in food systems commonly come with diet shifts, including increased consumption of processed foods, and may pose new opportunities and challenges for farmers, processors and consumers. However, with limited data on the topic, policymakers are ill-equipped to […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
Transformation of urban food systems
The urban food system in Ghana is changing, with growth in household incomes and rapid urbanization. Such shifts in food systems commonly come with diet shifts, including increased consumption of processed foods, and may pose new opportunities and challenges for farmers, processors and consumers.
DG’s Corner: IFPRI-Nigeria partnership for transformation
Rapid urbanization is dramatically changing demographics throughout the world, and especially in Nigeria. New research shows urbanization has been underestimated in Nigeria so far—already in 2010, 46 percent of the Nigerian population lived in urban areas, up from 31 percent found in previous assessments. While Nigeria has made impressive gains made in the service industry, […]
Course : Food Security in an Urbanizing Society
Wageningen University’s Centre for Development Innovation is organizing a two-week course on Food security in an urbanizing society. The objective of this course is to acquaint participants with the framework of city region food systems in relation to food and nutrition security in densely populated areas, enabling them to use the concepts of city region […]
Pakistan’s changing demography: Urbanization and peri-urban transformation over time
PSSP Working Paper 39 "Pakistan’s changing demography: Urbanization and peri-urban transformation over time" uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to evaluate improvements in transportation infrastructure and related urbanization over the last 40 y... Source: Pakistan Strategy Support Program
