The linkages between migration, agriculture, food security and rural development: technical report

This report examines the complex interlinkages of migration with agriculture, food security and rural development; taking stock of the literature and evidence from both developed and developing countries. The linkages between migration, agriculture and food security are sometimes direct, with rural people migrating because they do not see viable options for overcoming poverty, hunger and malnutrition within their own rural communities. However, the linkages are also often indirect and depend on specific contexts. The report focuses on how the interactions of food security with conflict, poverty, shocks and emergencies, environmental degradation and climate change can affect migration, but also looks at the role of household strategies for coping with the risk of hunger and malnutrition. See more