Obesity and the food system transformation in Latin America

BM Popkin, T Reardon - Obesity Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region faces a major diet‐related
health problem accompanied by enormous economic and social costs. The shifts in diet are …

[HTML][HTML] Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy

A Cattaneo, A Adukia, DL Brown, L Christiaensen… - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical
access to services and employment opportunities. For the vast majority of the 3.4 billion …

[PDF][PDF] 乡村振兴与新型城镇化耦合协调的动态演进及其驱动机制

徐维祥, 李露, 周建平, 刘程军 - 自然资源学报, 2020 - researching.cn
重构乡村振兴与新型城镇化的指标体系, 采用耦合协调度模型, 空间马尔可夫链以及地理加权
回归模型, 分析了2005—2017 年中国30 个省(市, 自治区) 乡村振兴与新型城镇化的耦合协调 …

Global mapping of urban–rural catchment areas reveals unequal access to services

A Cattaneo, A Nelson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Using travel time to cities of different sizes, we map populations across an urban–rural
continuum to improve on the standard dichotomous representations of urban–rural …

Quiet Revolution by SMEs in the midstream of value chains in developing regions: wholesale markets, wholesalers, logistics, and processing

T Reardon, LSO Liverpool-Tasie, B Minten - Food Security, 2021 - Springer
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the midstream (processors, wholesalers and
wholesale markets, and logistics) segments of transforming value chains have proliferated …

Analysing scale, quality and diversity of green infrastructure and the provision of Urban Ecosystem Services: A case from Mexico City

R Calderón-Contreras, LE Quiroz-Rosas - Ecosystem services, 2017 - Elsevier
Fostering urban resilience requires a social-ecological systems approach that considers the
ecological and social feedbacks of cities. In this paper we argue that Urban Ecosystem …

Evolutionary process and mechanism of population hollowing out in rural villages in the farming-pastoral ecotone of Northern China: A case study of Yanchi County …

Q Wen, J Li, J Ding, J Wang - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
The hollowing out of the rural population is one of the main reasons for declining rural areas.
Studying the hollowing out of the rural population is of great significance in promoting the …

Subaltern urbanization: Indian insights for urban theory

P Mukhopadhyay, MH Zérah… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of subaltern urbanization is about vibrant smaller settlements—outside the
metropolitan shadow—sustainably supporting a dispersed pattern of urbanization. We …

Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America

I Tiznado-Aitken, G Vecchio, LA Guzman, J Arellana… - Habitat International, 2023 - Elsevier
Latin America is a highly urbanized region characterized by remarkable inequality levels,
also reflected in an uneven distribution of opportunities, making socio-economic segregation …

Cities and rural transformation: A spatial analysis of rural livelihoods in Ghana

X Diao, E Magalhaes, J Silver - World Development, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent growth in many African countries has been accompanied by rapid urbanization,
which could have major impacts on rural livelihoods. This paper examines patterns of rural …