Public Sector Engagement With Peri- Urban Issues is Difficult But Important

This is a message from new research into lives affected by the meeting of rural and urban, of country and town: the meeting called the peri-urban interface. It is a product of ten years of study, focusing on livelihoods, systems of production and poverty in Kumasi (Ghana), Hubli-Dharwad and Kolkata (both India). It was funded by the Natural Resources Systems Programme of the Department for International Development of the UK Government (DFID), for the benefit of developing countries. The view expressed are not necessarily those of DFID