- Title
- Urbanisation reshapes gendered engagement in land-based livelihood activities in mid-sized African towns:
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M, Drescher, Axel W, Schlesinger, Johannes
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176346
- Identifier
- vital:42686
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104946
- Description
- Most sub-Saharan African countries are experiencing accelerating rates of urban migration, which bring with it many opportunities and challenges for migrating households, urban planners, governments and local and national economies. At the household level urbanisation may drive changes in the allocation of household labour and consequently social and economic relations. Yet how these are manifest in land-based livelihood strategies of arable cropping, livestock husbandry and the collection of wild products in urban settings has rarely been considered. Here we examine the changing participation rates in land-based livelihood activities by male- and female-headed households along the rural–urban continua of six sub-Saharan African secondary towns. To capture the gendered changes in land-based livelihood strategies along the urban–rural continuum, 1156 randomly selected households were sampled along transects radiating out from the urban through the periurban to rural surrounds. Participation in different land-based livelihood strategies was recorded by means of a questionnaire.
- Format
- 10 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- World Development, Shackleton, C.M., Drescher, A. and Schlesinger, J., 2020. Urbanisation reshapes gendered engagement in land-based livelihood activities in mid-sized African towns. World Development, 130, p.104946, World Development volume 130 number p. 104946 2020 0305-750X
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Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
RU Department of Environmental Science
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 05. Gender Equality
SDG 15. Life On Land
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