David Satterthwaite|Gordon McGranahan|Cecilia Tacoli
Urbanization and its implications for food and farming
International Institute for Environment and Development|International Institute for Environment and Development|International Institute for Environment and Development
paper discusses influences food farming increasingly urbanized world declining ratio food producers food consumers urbanization underpinned rapid growth world economy proportion gross world product workers industrial service enterprises globally agriculture met demands rapidly growing urban population including food energy land water greenhouse gas emissionintensive hundreds millions urban dwellers suffer undernutrition key issues regard agriculture urbanization whether growing changing demands agricultural products growing urban populations sustained time underpinning agricultural prosperity reducing rural urban poverty added need reduce greenhouse gas emissions build resilience agriculture urban development climate change impacts paper gives particular attention low middleincome nations since threequarters worlds urban population largest cities include nations issues food security pressing