If more isn’t done to alleviate rural hardships in Asia, they will eventually perpetuate overburdened cities, youth unemployment and urban poverty, says Seoul National University’s Edo Andriesse.
The global rural population is around 3 billion people. With more than half, or 1.8 billion rural people in Asia, we cannot afford to assume that solving urban problems will automatically reduce poverty, inequality, and vulnerability.
Therefore, if we seek a balanced and inclusive process of urbanisation without extreme urban inequalities, we also need to pay more attention to the plight of fishers and farmers. Otherwise, rural-urban migration merely ends up in a relocation of poverty. File Photo. Small-scale fishers need to grapple with higher food and fuel prices, higher ocean temperatures and the continuation of large-scale fishing operations depleting the world’s fish stocks. Farmers, smallholders, and peasants are at risk due to droughts, lack of land, changes in commodity prices, and difficulties bringing their produce to markets.
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