Posts Tagged ‘rural migration’

The overall trend of rural migration brings hunger in the cities

Friday, March 27, 2009 15:01 By GSerrano

It will eventually be a world of cities. The planet is expected to have 5.3 billion urban residents by 2050, according to forecasts by the UN. That’s 2 billion more than what the planet has today. In developing countries, 5 million new people migrate to cities every month, swelling urban populations. Many are fleeing the [...]

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City Farming: solving the twin problems of urban hunger and rural migration

Friday, March 27, 2009 13:52 By GSerrano

In a report from the Food for Cities Program of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), it says, “The riots of hunger in the cities of Haiti, in particular, have served to draw attention to the importance of urban poverty in the world food crisis.”
Urban food chains should be studied differently from their counterparts [...]

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