Improving rural living conditions to reduce migration to cities

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. All countries, especially developing ones, should, as appropriate, formulate and implement programmes to reduce the impact of the phenomenon of rural to urban drift by improving rural living conditions.

1. Providing decent living conditions
2. Improving condition of rural population
3. Developing special programmes on migration causing or caused by environmental change
4. Controlling physical expansion of cities
5. Controlling migration

1. Providing adequate housing
2. Mitigating undesirable effects of migration

1. Investigating "grass is greener" syndrome
2. Assessing environmental consequences of migration
3. Advancing integrated rural development

1. Researching migration to rural areas

1. Excessive proximity of worker housing