Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Agriculture, Urbanization and Income Growth

By M. Tiffen. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Challenging the Myths of Urban Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Evidence from Nigeria (2012, background): “Tiffen (2003), for example, argues that sub-Saharan Africa has recently been experiencing accelerated rates of urban growth.”
Does the Sahelian smallholder's management of woodland, farm trees, rangeland support the hypothesis of human-induced desertification? (2005, background): “Also, a more urbanized economy, with new markets, investment opportunities, and non-farm incomes, is driving economic transition in many areas (Tiffen, 2003).”
Overcoming Market Constraints on Pro‐Poor Agricultural Growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa (2006, unknown): “The strongest claims for agricultural growth in Africa are currently made for parts of West Africa (for example Tiffen, 2003) as a result of, inter alia, regional trade liberalisation, the devaluation of the FCFA in 1994, rapid growth of urban demand, and positive supply-side stories.”
Livestock sector development for poverty reduction: an economic and policy perspective. Livestock's many virtues. (2012, background): “34 Where feasible, smallholders have been found to increase their income share from livestock and exploit croplivestock synergies (e.g., Faye and Fall, 2000; Tiffin, 2003).”
Urbanization and its implications for food and farming (2010, background): “A considerable proportion of the urban poor in some African, Latin American and Asian nations are those displaced by conflicts and disasters.”
The Future of Small Farms (2010, background): “The view that many rural areas have effectively reached the limits of their carrying capacity are consistent with Tiffen’s (2004) observation that rural population growth is less than one percent per year while urban population continues to grow rapidly in most of Africa.”
Adaptation and the poor: development, resilience and transition (2008, background): “…low agricultural productivity partly caused by poor or decreasing access to inputs; (ii) malfunctioning markets and distribution systems due to poor or deteriorating infrastructure (World Bank, 2006); and (iii) shortage of labour because of rural–urban migration (Tiffen, 2003; Olsson et al., 2005).”
Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World (2004, methodology): “Concentrations of people facilitate the exchange and development of ideas’ (Tiffen, 2003: 1347).”
Institutions, Resources, and Organizational Effectiveness in Africa (2015, background): “%) is in agriculture, whose practices are more informal (Tiffen, 2003).”
The urban transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: implications for economic growth and poverty reduction (2006, background): “Tiffen (2003) argues that in Africa the domestic (urban) market is becoming the main stimulus to agriculture, but the process is hindered by low productivity of the urban sector due to inadequate urban investment and bad policies.”
Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (2015, background): “Major drivers include agro-ecological constraints and opportunities; human population dynamics; urbanisation/migration; institutional developments; and agricultural policies influencing access to information and markets (Anderson, 1992; Tiffen, 2003; Kuyvenhoven, 2008; Satterthwaite et al., 2010).”