Taking advantage of rural assets as a coping strategy for the urban poor: the                 case of ruralurban interrelations in Botswana

Krüger, Fred

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“…Other evidence from rural settings suggests that 40% of rural households send maize to family and friends in nearby towns or cities (Djurfeldt 2015). These rural food linkages received by urban households have been shown to play a significant role in promoting household food security, even more than urban households' engagement in agricultural production (Krüger 1998). Frayne (2004) found that urban households in Windhoek, Namibia with limited social connections to rural areas were the most vulnerable to hunger, whereas those with active and robust ties to rural households regularly received transfers of food that made a considerable contribution to their overall household food budget.…”

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Food systems and rural-urban linkages in African secondary cities

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Urban populations globally are expected to increase by approximately 2.5 billion by 2050. Much of this growth is taking place in African cities, where about 40% of Africans live in urban areas with populations of less than 250,000. In many of these cities, rapid urban growth has outpaced economic and social development, resulting in high levels of urban poverty and widespread food insecurity. As one response strategy, urban households may leverage their linkages with rural areas and other towns or cities to supplement their food consumption, for example through food remittances or food purchases from remote retailers. While this strategy has been found to occur among inhabitants of large cities where existing research on urban food systems and urban food linkages with other areas has focused, the dynamics in smaller cities are likely different. In this paper, we draw on data from 837 surveys collected in 2021 to investigate household food sourcing strategies across 14 urban areas in Zambia with populations less than 100,000. We find that rural-urban food linkages are dominated by grains while urban-urban food linkages are predominantly composed of higher value foods. Our data further suggest that urban area characteristics explain more of the variability in food sourcing behaviors than household level characteristics, and that urban food purchasing preferences in secondary urban areas are sensitive to the food retail landscape available to households. These relationships highlight the disparate role that rural and urban linkages play across cities of different sizes. They suggest a need for food-related policies to consider diverse urban food systems among smaller cities.

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Food systems and rural-urban linkages in African secondary cities

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“…Studies have previously shown that many people in Gaborone maintain strong links to their ancestral villages and their respective communities (Krüger, 1998;Lesetedi, 2003), which are increasingly strained by the impact of water shortage. A woman participant said:…”

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Differentiated vulnerabilities and capacities for adaptation to water shortage in Gaborone, Botswana

Schlamovitz

Becker

2020

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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Employing the heuristic of intersectionality, this study analyzes household effects and responses to water shortage in Gaborone, Botswana, focusing on residents' adaptive capacity and vulnerability. Using data collected through qualitative interviews, we find that households from all socio-economic backgrounds face various effects from water shortage and use numerous strategies to reduce exposure and impact. A key insight is that vulnerability and adaptive capacity are not equally distributed between, or within conventional social categories. Instead, the effects of water shortage are influenced by the intersection and interplay of several underlying factors.

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Urban Environmental Management in Botswana: Toward a Theoretical Explanation ofPublic Policy Failure

Toteng

2001

Environmental Management

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For the last three and half decades, Botswana has been widely acclaimed to be one of sub-Saharan Africa's longest and most stable liberal democracies, coupled with and sustained by a growing economy. One of the major contradictions, however, within this development scenario, has been the neglect of environmental problems in the country in general, and urban environmental issues in particular. Part of the problem fueling the misconception of environmental issues in Botswana is the state's domination of the country's environmental agenda. This is linked to the power disjunction in decision-making and policy processes between state and nonstate actors over the most appropriate course of action to tackle the problems. Without adopting appropriate analytical frameworks, it is possible that the problem of urban environmental mismanagement in Botswana will persist. This article examines some of the major urban environmental issues in Botswana from neighborhood, citywide, and urban-rural interface perspectives. Further, the elite theory of public policy is used to explain constraints on policy change in the urban environmental management arena in Botswana.

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Taking advantage of rural assets as a coping strategy for the urban poor: the case of ruralurban interrelations in Botswana

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Food systems and rural-urban linkages in African secondary cities

Food systems and rural-urban linkages in African secondary cities

Differentiated vulnerabilities and capacities for adaptation to water shortage in Gaborone, Botswana

Urban Environmental Management in Botswana: Toward a Theoretical Explanation ofPublic Policy Failure

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