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Cecilia Tacoli
Principal researcher, Human Settlements; team leader, rural-urban
Rural and urban linkages, migration and urbanisation patterns in the context of globalisation.
The links between rural and urban development, with special attention to the role of small urban centres in the development of their surrounding region, migration and mobility, livelihood diversification and rural non-farm employment, transformations in peri-urban areas.
English, French and Italian
Cecilia Tacoli's blog posts
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger by 2030 means taking account of changes in both rural and urban contexts. Cecilia Tacoli reports back from a workshop organised with IFAD on some of the issues raised.
Amid concerns rural migrants transfer poverty to urban areas, Cecila Tacoli makes the case for citizenship rights and proactive planning for urban growth to reduce disadvantage and poverty
A balloon, a camera and some interviews are helping researchers map a hidden aspect of food insecurity in an informal settlement in Nairobi.
After years of alarmist predictions of hundreds of millions of climate refugees fleeing their homes, there is now a broad-based consensus that while the impacts of climate change will increase the number of migrants, it is not the only factor that drives people to move.