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| Title: | Market Towns and Services Linkages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Chipata, Zambia; Salima, Malawi and Chipinge, Zimbabwe |
| Author: | Wanmali, Sudhir |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Periodical: | African Urban Quarterly (ISSN 0747-6108) |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 3-4 |
| Period: | August-November |
| Pages: | 267-277 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Zambia Malawi Central Africa |
| Subjects: | rural-urban relations marketplaces towns Economics and Trade Urbanization and Migration urbanization Market towns rural development service industries Agricultural sector Salima (Malawi) Chipata (Zambia) Chipinge District (Zimbabwe) |
| Abstract: | On the basis of information gathered in a field survey conducted in 1987 on the service sector activities of three market towns in southern Africa - Chipata in Zambia, Salima in Malawi, and Chipinge in Zimbabwe - the author identifies the nature and composition of the relationship between the growth of market towns and the growth of their agricultural rural hinterlands. He details the demographic, functional and employment characteristics of the three market towns, describes the historical growth and spatial linkages of service sector activity, as well as the characteristics of agriculture in the rural hinterlands. Development in agriculture is found to be positively associated with service sector activities in these towns. Other systems influencing the market towns are the formal system of parastatal agencies for the marketing of agricultural and rural produce, and the system of provision of institutional and public sector activities made available through the national physical planning system. App., bibliogr., sum. |