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Impact of Rapid Urbanization and Climate Change on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Climate Change Policies in the Agricultural Sector

Impact of Rapid Urbanization and Climate Change on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Climate Change Policies in the Agricultural Sector
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Author(s): Mutisya Emmanuel (University of Tokyo, Japan), Lilian Muasa (University of Tokyo, Japan), Chiahsin Chen (University of Tokyo, Japan), Florence Mutisya (London South Bank University, UK)and Ram Avtar (United Nations University, Japan)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 11
Source title: Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental Sustainability
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Soumyananda Dinda (Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8814-8.ch020

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Abstract

Africa continues to experience serious signs of multiple crises in the context of sustainability. These crises include vulnerability to climate change, rapid urbanization, food insecurity, and many others. One crisis, that defines Africa today, is the unprecedented rapid urbanization which continues to pose a big challenge to the diminishing available resources, environmental quality and human well-being. Cities in Africa continue to experience a fast horizontal growth of settlements due to influx of people from rural areas who often settle in the economically lowest segments in urban areas. This horizontal rapid growth has eaten up land set for agriculture around cities and promoted the rapid growth of informal settlements exacerbating the impacts of climate change leading to a negative impact on agricultural production. Policies linking rapid urbanization and climate change with agricultural productivity are need. This paper explores and documents the impact of rapid urbanization on climate change policies and subsequent impact on agriculture in Africa.

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