A new, revised and supplemented edition of the atlas A New Emerging Rural World - An Overview of Rural Change in Africa is just out. It was officially launched at the second Africa Rural Development Forum, organized by NEPAD in Yaoundé from 8 to 10 September 2016. The atlas reports on the dynamics at play within the rural world in Africa and on territorial restructuring within the continent.
This second, revised and supplemented edition of the atlas A New Emerging Rural Worldtakes stock of rural restructuring in Africa, both North and sub-Saharan. It relates data on demographics, population, urbanization and resource use with spatial and economic dynamics, both on a continental scale and through several regional examples. It is a totally original tool, and is intended to fuel the debate on the main regional and continental development issues.
It is published jointly by CIRAD and NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's Development, a technical body of the African Union), with financial support from the Agence française de développement (AFD), and fits in with NEPAD's new Rural Futures Programme, which is intended to support territorial dynamics and structural change for sustainable development of the continent.
The atlas comprises 24 spreads and 77 illustrations, and is the fruit of collaboration between 53 authors, 23 from CIRAD and 20 representatives of African institutions. It will be supplemented and updated regularly.
The atlas was widely praised by the participants in the 2nd Africa Rural Development Forum organized by NEPAD in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from 8 to 10 September 2016, and is due to be presented shortly to the European Union, the main donors in the rural sector and African Heads of State at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa in late January 2017.
It is available on line, in English and French.
The 24 spreads can be downloaded below:
1. STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS
- Spread 1: Rural and urban densification continues
- Spread 2: Youth employment: a challenge for the continent
- Spread 3: Megacities and archipelagos: an emerging urban framework
- Spread 4: Migration dynamics: contrasted patterns, diversity and potential
- Spread 5: Economic transition and new territorial model
- Spread 6: Regional organisations in Africa: overlap, collaboration and action
- Spread 7: Decentralisation in Africa: an opportunity for rural areas?
2. RURALITY, ACTIVITIES, RESOURCES
- Spread 8: Which pathways for agriculture by 2050?
- Spread 9: Agricultural exports: mixed results well below their potential
- Spread 10: The presence of China in Africa: a role in future agriculture
- Spread 11: Mining activities: new dynamics and rural impacts
- Spread 12: Photovoltaics and mobile telephony: decentralised technologies suitable for rural areas
- Spread 13: Trends in large-scale land acquisition in Africa
- Spread 14: Wood: a key resource for economic development
- Spread 15: Blue gold and its challenges: water stress in Africa
3. SPOTLIGHT ON REGIONAL CHALLENGES
- Spread 16: Which regulations for land-use conflicts in the Congo Basin?
- Spread 17: The Senegal River delta: which model of agricultural development?
- Spread 18: Lake Chad: a multitude of challenges
- Spread 19: The illusion of abundance: agricultural land issues in the Vakinankaratra in Madagascar
- Spread 20: Territorial planning to meet the demographic challenge in Ségou (Mali)
- Spread 21: Pastoral mobility: from a Sahelian to a sub-regional issue
- Spread 22: The Ouagadougou-Accra corridor: spatial inclusion through staple food crops
- Spread 23: What should be done with North Africa's groundwater resources?
- Spread 24: Water: a resource requiring better governance in West Africa