Rural-urban dynamics livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers /

• Other Authors: Agergaard, Jytte, 1960-, Fold, Niels., Gough, Katherine V., 1963-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
• Series: Routledge studies in human geography ; 29.
• Subjects: Rural-urban relations > Africa.; Rural-urban relations > Asia.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.; Electronic books.
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This book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia.

Table of Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Conceptualising and performing comparison of rural-urban dynamics; 3 Small town development in the Ghanaian cocoa frontier; 4 Living from coffee in Vietnam's Central Highlands: Susceptible livelihoods and diverse settlement transformations; 5 Rise and fall of smallholder pineapple production in Ghana: Changing global markets, livelihoods and settlement growth; 6 Transforming livelihoods and settlements: Fruit production and urbanisation in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.