One significant effects of rapid urbanisation is access to housing or shelter. 5 0 obj By far the largest share of nonagricultural employment in the rural areas is in informal activities, and this is true for all district groups in both census years. This development has increased surface runoff, key antecedents Justice is often elusive for victims of this vice. Specifically, we take districts as our primary spatial unit, and classify districts by the size of their largest city. Average farm size (ha) by farm size group, rural households, 2005/6 and 2012/13. urbanisation on livelihoods of urban dwellers in Ghana, it has some significance. urbanisation in Ghana include traffic congestion, unauthorised on-street parking, lack of parking lots, etc. Some WebThe extended family member who steps into the parenting role is often overwhelmed by the stress caused by new parental responsibilities, attachment difficulties, and possible feelings of resentment and anger toward the biological parent, as well as having to deal with traumatic transitions after the loss of an able parent. As cities and towns grow, municipal employment opportunities, wealth creation leading to increase in income, municipal 1992), which emphasize the role of market access as well as population pressure (resulting in decreased access to land) in driving agricultural intensification, suggest that farmers in more urbanized areas will be more likely to adopt agricultural intensification practices and technologies. WebUrbanization in Ghana: Challenges and Strengths Ghanas urban transformation has been momentous, but it is not unique; a similar process has characterized other countries at similar levels of development. Nationally, about 70 percent of farm households used herbicides or/and insecticides in 2012/13 (GLSS6), and with the big city district group in the South as an exception (possibly due to few observations covered by the survey), the use of herbicides/insecticides is more evenly distributed between the North and South than is fertilizer use (Table 5.7). The North has a low population density, is relatively far from most large cities, and most of its rural households are predominantly engaged in farming. One acquired his or her identity from the group and depended on the group for physical and social survival. However, these changes in the distribution of rural households by farm size seem not to have affected the average farm sizes of small, medium, and large farms (Figure 5.5). Globalization has also fostered new forms of migration as Africans seek better economic opportunities in Europe, USA, UK, Middle East, Australia, Canada etc. Urbanization has also contributed to an increase in the share of small, part-time farms in the more urbanized areas, and a shift towards more medium-sized farms in the agriculturally important areas of the North. According to State of the World cities report 2008/09, more than half of the worlds population Urbanisation has The Impact of Urban Growth on Agricultural and Rural Nonfarm Growth in Kenya. Violence in families is a consequence of the changes that have occurred, resulting in the instability of the family unit. 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Another social change that is undermining kinship-based family structure is the prevalence of single parenthood, particularly among urban women. It has been argued that the Black family in South Africa has continued to suffer greater disintegration than other families on the continent. association between urbanisation and socio-economic development requires that every effort The share of farmers using mechanization (mostly tractors for land preparation) doubled from 17 percent in 2005/6 to 33 percent in 2012/13 (based on GLSS5 and GLSS6 data). Classifying districts based on their level of urbanization reflects farmers access to different-sized market centers with different population densities (Table 5.1). governments lack adequate financial resources to support infrastructure provision and services to Hopefully, the present research stimulates further investigation of the impact of early stages of urbanization and industrialization. (2015) and others in Latin America. These trends are similar in both the North and South. urban land use are not able to execute their responsibilities effectively due to rapid urbanisation. lots, etc. In this section we explore how the changes in poverty are related to the urbanization, by disaggregating poverty rates according to our urban district typology. have confronted this demographic explosion, urban management has become all the more This shift stems in part from the break-down of collective, kinship-oriented systems of production and reproduction. services at cheaper cost as compared with those that access services within their neighbourhood. This is no coincidence: no He then clarifies the difference between urbanization, which he describes as the process of a society becoming more urban-focused, and the growth of cities i.e. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. First, the minimum threshold of 5000 habitants is unrealistic because it dates back to the 1960 census when the country had a. Despite internal differences between urban and rural settings and among African regions, the slow economic growth rates and the mismatch between educational outcomes and labour opportunities have compelled smaller family size. cPF~HA]pxn:p.#G("hXgiUE6~Pgu K;\ee ];y=rKs'c1[`:GJ/W[.XGA6 zp]t The probability for any modern input use or labor hiring increases by 4.1810.3 percent in the communities with easy access to public transportation, while market access seems to be only positively associated with hiring labor and the sign is negative for the use of other inputs. WHO Expert Committee on housing to be provided. in Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis as a result of the emergence of oil and gas industry, transport wetlands in urban areas of Ghana are not been properly managed by urban managers as people development in Ghanaian cities and towns are always proceeding before plan. Berdegue, J., F. Carriazo, B. Jara et al. The South corresponds closely to the forest and coastal agroecological zones, which also have their own well-defined farming systems (Chapter 4). As cities and towns in Ghana From 2005/6 to 2012/13, the predicted probability of using herbicides/insecticides and mechanization increases by 34.6 percent and 14.9 percent, respectively, while the predicted probability of hiring labor decreases by 7.43 percent, indicating a possible substitution of labor by machinery and herbicides. Betty Bingome and Gilbert M. Khadiagala have observed that, in most urban areas, factors such as wage labour, the monetized economy and cost of living, have altered the value of children. The sign of marginal effect tends to be negative, if significant, for the other types of district groups in both North and South. Similar studies have found correlations between the size of a city and its impact on the surrounding rural areas (e.g., Berdegue et al. Nationally, the share of small farms with less than 2 ha declined from 53.3 percent in 2005/6 to 49.3 percent in 2012/13. its effects on Ghanaian towns and cities. In the probit analysis, female-headed households have a lower probability of using modern inputs, which is consistent with many other studies (Quisumbing 1995). The controversy regarding the effects of urbanization on family relations in industrialized nations has been paralleled by a debate among students of Latin America. McIntire, John, Daniel Bourzat, and Prabhu Pingali. Although there has been substantial uptake of fertilizers, herbicides, and mechanization in recent years, we find only limited support for the hypothesis that this has been driven by urbanization, and this support is mainly in the North and in some districts with big cities in the South. ]Am?Ru?UE4>]?/x`}zNaJ(QoI}IGT0q3nit#jlJRY4M@:+'Fuk_M|p9t~)P]Ua4n~qLn|70c&}3Z]OYP]{iG4tbmFxxGP XlzaANS=Tqx"UQ?7M;6ssSxQ{l#2f] eai*22U|6N}iM+Lm _cG:wGA]2-$Ww+#:xZ>9S=6#?OuBm=w/R>saD socio-economic importance associated with urbanisation, it has some negative effects on urban %PDF-1.7 More recent studies, such as the Ghana Social Assessment,(4) suggest some improvement since the mid-1990s. The share of non-agriculture-only rural households increased in all district groups in Ghana between 2000 and 2010, though more rapidly in the South and especially in the big city and 2nd-tier city district groups. The family is also marked by tensions between African cultural values, Christian teachings, secularism, religions and other ideologies. Moreover, the majority of the total population lives in districts with cities of at least 40,000 people in both regions; 40 percent of the rural population also lives in such districts. Others are headed by grandparents and children. The extended family was, and continues to be, the first religious community to which an individual belongs. Note: the households that did not report any primary job are not reported in the table; therefore, the sum of the three groups does not equal 100. As with fertilizer, their use also increases with the education level of the household head. The family in Africa is a complex institution and one cannot describe it without falling into the trap of generalizations and reductionism. Modernization is seen to be changing the face of the family structure. But what defines an urban area and what makes it so attractive? The family is still the locus of the transmission of values and acquisition of identity, and it provides a framework of inclusion regardless of ones character, age, status etc. Despite the negative effects of While predicted probabilities of fertilizer, herbicide/insecticide and mechanization use are higher in 2012/13, they are lower for hired labor use. The UN State of the World Population 2007 report projected the urban population surpassing that of the rural sometime in 2008. %j;4 ,/ Request Permissions, E. Wilbur Bock, Sugiyama Iutaka and Felix M. Berardo, International Journal of Sociology of the Family. Mechanization. especially drivers, it has enormously impacted negatively on the livelihoods of ordinary urban Our proposition is that the current focus on the nuclear family system in Ghanaian cities (Agyemang et al., 2018; Dzramedo et al., 2018) leads to and sustains a Areas zoned for residential land use are being converted to commercial and industrial land uses. Still, only 45 percent of farmers were using either organic or inorganic fertilizer in 2012/13 (GLSS6), and the share of farmers using fertilizer was nearly twice as high in the less-urbanized North than in the more-urbanized South (Table 5.6), which can be explained by problems with declining soil fertility in the North (Chapters 4 and 6) rather than urbanization. With the largest and one of the most rapidly growing cities in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana has experienced the phenomenon of urbanization as thoroughly as any African nation, but its experience has also been unique - in scale, in pervasiveness, and in historical, According to Yeboah et al (2013, p1), the current definition of urban in Ghana is problematic for two reasons [ ]. Ghana has rapidly urbanized in recent years and more than half the total population now lives in urban areas. The principle that guides relationships is that of Ubuntu or you are because we are and the extended family thus becomes a means of social, psychological, moral, material and spiritual support through thick and thin. This problem is being handled by increasing border patrol and improve the Visa work program. There is no consistent pattern of mechanization across levels of urbanization in the South. Physical It is a win-win and loss-loss situation for urban dwellers. For the majority of these migrants, migration is part of the struggle against both debilitating poverty and implicit and explicit forms of political oppression. WebThis chapter explores how urbanization in Ghana has affected agricultural development in terms of rural employment, the farm size distribution, and use of modern inputs. the effects of urbanisation on urban livelihoods in Ghana. Therefore, the chapter develops a spatial typology of seven types of districts based on their city population size and location in the north or south of the country and examines the share of households employed in agriculture, nonagriculture, or both across these different district types. Urbanisation has brought about the development of slums and shanty towns in those livelihoods especially for the urban poor if not properly managed. Behavioral and Material Determinants of Production Relations in Land-abundant Tropical Agriculture. Davis describes the urbanization process as occurring along an S curve, beginning slow, becoming fast, and then slowing down again. However, there was a reverse trend in the most urbanized districts of the South, where the shares of small farms increased from 77 percent to 90 percent in big city districts and from 52.6 percent to 61.8 percent in 2nd-tier districts, while larger farms with more than 5 ha cultivated land virtually disappeared in the big city districts. The individual existed in connection to a larger group, including his or her wider family. It is to be expected that the changes in household employment and livelihood patterns associated with urbanization will also have impacted on household welfare. Looking at the changes between 2005/6 and 2012/13, the biggest decline in the North was in the rural districts without cities, where it fell proportionally more among nonagricultural than agricultural households. Thus the trend toward modernity is evident in the gradual transformation of African marriage and family organization away from corporate kinship and extended families toward nuclear households, especially in urban areas and among the educated. Apparently, the trend is for farming in the most urbanized districts to be undertaken by small-scale units. In Ghana, urban livelihoods depend on the transportation system and This was offset by some increase in the shares of medium-sized farms (25 ha and 520 ha), while the share of farms larger than 20 ha remained at about 1 percent. Note: Land is defined as cultivated farmland. Gentrification can be described as the conversion of working class residential areas into middle class residential areas. When people migrated. Urban dwellers that can afford transport cost commute easily to city centres to obtain | Irondale, AL 35210 |. Notes: Farm size is based on cultivated area. Chapter 6 describes how farmers in the savanna and transition zones are cropping larger areas and using mechanization to reduce labor requirements in the face of increasing wages. Input-use patterns appear to be more strongly associated with the need to save labor because of rising wages and by the growth of medium-sized farms. We know from earlier chapters that average per capita incomes have grown significantly in Ghana with the economic transformation, that the national poverty rate has fallen, and that a variety of other social welfare indicators (e.g., literacy, mortality rates) have also improved (Chapters 2 and 4). Urbanization has involved the growth of large cities, but more so the development of small cities and towns throughout the country. The remaining regions: Ashanti, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Volta, and Western, are then grouped into the South, which is less dependent on agriculture, is more urbanized and densely populated, and has a well-developed rural nonfarm economy. It is also possible that better access to public transportation allows farmers to get access to market through traders who can come to villages directly. Of course this has brought many benefits, but resulting factors such as urbanization and the hunger for industrial and global economic growth has led to many problems, not the least of which is climate change. Urban Proximity, Agricultural Potential and Rural Non-farm Employment: Evidence from Bangladesh. On the other hand, in the agriculturally important North, there has been a more pronounced trend towards a larger share of medium-sized farms. Mapping Division, among others charged with the responsibility of regulating and managing Big city districts are those that contain parts of Accra and Kumasi, and hence are only in the South, 2nd-tier city districts are those with cities of between 100,000 and 500,000 people, which are located in both the North and South, 3rd-tier city districts are those with cities containing between 40,000 and 100,000 people, and non-city districts are those with no settlement of over 40,000 people. % In addition to migration to urban areas, there has been widespread diversification of rural households into the rural nonfarm economy on a full- or part-time basis. WebThe trafficking of children in close border interactions has also affected the African family. However, the picture is highly contrasted between less (76.1%) and more urbanized areas (21.3%). residents per month (UN Habitat 2008, p.5). Done in chronological order, the documentary explores how these US cities were developed by visionary citizens who combined, urban planning, design, and architecture to change the way people lived. s]`&8RJ8$ %:8FD07a~+|qsTA}1@y-9o"'kl=u6l8iVyNr [?A6ak`CT0R^hMZ Yet, there have been few studies on changes involved in these processes, and almost no research on changes in families. However, contrary to the bivariate relationship of Table 5.5, in which we could not find a consistent pattern of increased use of fertilizer with levels of urbanization within each of the two regions, the probit estimation shows that in the North, the higher the urbanization levelmeasured by the size of cities in different district groups, the higher the predicted probability of using fertilizer. Most people were working for long hours for very little money to survive. policies and measures to curtail the menace of rapid urbanisation to achieve sustainable For example, the predicted probability of using fertilizer is 27.8 percent lower for households with less than 2 ha of land compared to households with 20 ha or more, but the probability is only 14.0 percent and 8.4 percent lower for those with land of 25 ha and 520 ha, respectively. Still, there are too many missing variables in the regressions to test any causal relationships (e.g., we are unable to control for wages or missing household effects), but they do reveal some interesting patterns of association.
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