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Food Remittances: Migration and Food Security in Africa /

There is considerable evidence from across the African continent that a significant proportion of cash remittances to rural areas is spent on food. However, bidirectional food remitting -- its drivers, dimensions and impacts -- is an underdeveloped research and policy area. This report therefore rev...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Crush, Jonathan, 1953- (Author), Caesar, Mary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Migration policy series ; no. 72.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Executive summary
  • Introduction
  • Cross-border migration and food remittances
  • International migration and food remittances
  • Food remitters in rural areas
  • Case study one : food remitting in a state of crisis : Zimbabwe
  • Case study two : reciprocal urban-rural remitting : Namibia
  • Conclusions.