This research focuses on the dimensions of Smart Village concept to understand what extent smart development in countryside could contribute reducing disparities between rural and urban realities. Population imbalances intensifying climate impacts are prime challenges for areas, which also need counter diminishing infrastructure lack digital competencies enhance their attractiveness. Cities, tu...

Co-locating services has become a common solution to the many longstanding challenges of service access and provision in rural areas. Rural hubs – which offer two or more at same outlet take forms, typically responding triggers for social innovation. Despite their growing ubiquity, however, have been little studied comparative perspective. This article shifts lens on from place-based solutions ...

Foresight Studies analyze emerging issues and trends with the objective of quantifying the research challenge and the potential impact for agricultural research. The past century has entailed a relatively speaking rapid redistribution as well as growth of urban populations, with the urban population surpassing the rural one for the first time in 2008. Processes of urban growth and their implica...

Many years, urbanisation research has largely focused the development of urban agglomerations and megacity regions, whereas less attention was paid on medium-sized cities, small towns, villages, or rural areas. Yet many interrelations spatial linkages between areas exist. In this paper, we present a novel method called ‘TOPOI’ for integrated analysis description settlement units in an urban–rur...

ii Summary This paper provides a review of the literature on migration, HIV/AIDS and urban food security, and attempts to draw the links between these three powerful dynamics which are at play in Southern and Eastern Africa. The aim of the paper is to stimulate discussion and provide a platform for developing an action research agenda to inform policy and programming within these three intercon...