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来源类型 | Briefing |
规范类型 | 简报 |
来源ID | 10810IIED |
Tackling poverty and food security: lessons from India’s peri-urban frontier | |
Fiona Marshall; Pritpal Randhawa | |
发表日期 | 2017 |
出版者 | IIED |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In India, peri-urban areas are too often neglected. They are fraught with institutional ambiguity, unplanned growth, poor infrastructure and environmental degradation. Many peri-urban inhabitants live in poverty and face increasing marginalisation and food insecurity. Efforts to address malnutrition are decoupled from urban development initiatives, policy and planning. There has been a major decline in public funding and support for agriculture. Yet peri-urban agriculture could be a major contributor to poverty alleviation and food security. This briefing paper identifies specific policies and programmes which could support peri-urban agriculture in India. It examines rural-urban transformations 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. But to facilitate pro-poor food security developments on the ground, we also need a better understanding of the knowledge gaps, governance challenges and mechanisms that might help. |
主题 | Urban ; Food and agriculture |
区域 | India |
URL | https://pubs.iied.org/10810IIED/?c=foodag&p=4 |
来源智库 | International Institute for Environment and Development (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/319252 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Fiona Marshall,Pritpal Randhawa. Tackling poverty and food security: lessons from India’s peri-urban frontier. 2017. |
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