informality and rural transition – urbanisation, food economy and changing rural livelihoods
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The biggest ‘private sector’: What place for the informal economy in green and inclusive growth?
Session 2. Informality and rural transition –Urbanisation, food economy and changing rural livelihoods London, 25 February 2016
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West Africa - a peopling region Sub-Saharan Africa x15
300 million
Sub-Saharan Africa x3
540 million36% in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The West African urban network in 1950
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A reshaped human, social and economic geography
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Rural and urban populations are moving closer together
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Urbanisation, rural transformation and the food economy economy
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The food economy – the biggest informal economy
Uganda - 40% of rural householdsoperate non-farm informal enterprises
Peru – 99% of rural enterprises informal(agriculture, trade, transport, etc.)
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The success of meeting growing food demand is largely down to informal domestic and regional trade
East Africa: ~3 million tonnes of food staples traded informally in 2013
Regional maize flows
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The informal economy – inclusiveness and green growth