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India’s Peri-Urban Frontier: Rural-Urban Transformations And Food Security

Published on 1 March 2017

In India, peri-urban areas are too often neglected. Many people live in poverty and face increasing marginalisation and food insecurity. Yet peri-urban agriculture could be a major contributor to poverty alleviation and food security. This working paper examines rural-urban transformations in India in relation to changes in food production, access, consumption, nutritional quality and safety. To improve health and nutrition, a more holistic, food security-based perspective is needed. Policy and planning must support those fragile communities engaged in peri-urban agriculture while protecting the environmental services on which they depend. It also discusses examples of specific policies and programmes and considers knowledge gaps, governance challenges and mechanisms that might help facilitate pro-poor food security developments on the ground.

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Marshall.F. and Randhawa. P. (2017) India’s Peri-Urban Frontier: Rural-Urban Transformations And Food Security, Working paper, IIED

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isbn
978-1-78431-381-4
language
English

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