Urban Development Links

Employment and income

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Peri-urban agriculture
FAO provides a concise overview of international responses with links to peri-urban forestry and watershed management.
www.fao.org/unfao/bodies/COAG/COAG15/X0076e.htm

Practical Action Consultants (formerly ITC)
ITC ltd provides independent and professional advice to governments, NGOs, aid agencies and the private sector. One of its thematic areas covers increasing enterprise opportunities and access to markets and aims to enhance livelihoods by creating opportunities for the use of technology by small enterprise through capacity building, business development services and improved access to markets.
http://practicalactionconsulting.org/?id=itc_home

Practical Action (formerly ITDG)
Aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. Among others, it covers manufacturing, agro processing, food production and small-scale mining.
www.practicalaction.org/

International Development Research Centre
Urban Poverty & Environment Programme
The Urban Poverty & Environment Programme funds research and activities in developing countries that apply integrated and participatory approaches to reducing environmental burdens on urban poor people and enhancing the use of natural resources for food, water and income security.
www.idrc.ca/en/ev-5911-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Rural-Urban Linkages
IIED’s Rural-Urban Linkages work seeks to improve understanding of how changing rural-urban interactions affect the livelihoods of low income and vulnerable groups; support the capacity of local governments to identify opportunities and constraints for regional development and help improve better integration between national and local macro-economic and sectoral policies.
www.iied.org/HS/themes/ru.html

Livelihoods Connect, urban-rural change
Livelihoods Connect pre-selects, synthesises and organises information relevant to DFID's work on sustainable livelihoods, including on urban-rural change.
www.livelihoods.org/hot_topics/UrbanRural.html

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