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Paper short abstract:

This paper discussing the causes of urban-to rural migration in coastal countries of ECOWAS, and suggest strategy with action plans to develop the infrastructure in rural areas with controlling this extreme movements in this model of developing countries synchronizing with planning resettlement.

Paper long abstract:

2011 was a balance year presented in equality of rural and urban population around world, in Africa there are only 3 megacities but most cities\urban areas are far less than rural. Poor people are always targeting cities to enhance their economic life, and almost African countries focus in develop rural areas to minimize the real cost of poverty. The waterfront countries in ECOWAS experienced series of crisis affecting in the normal growth rate of urban areas, this research came to discuss the both forces of environmental refugees and mass-back migration to rural areas after injured by financial crisis. Rural reshaped as consequences of rapid urbanization not only in rural nearby cities, but also that far and have started in developing some essential infrastructure development such as accessing water and sanitation services. The development of infrastructure became disaster within lake of public expenditure of thus countries, private sector and international firms started to participate in this issue and there are many models to solve this problem. Consolidating factors affecting allocation of food industrial organizations on-site areas as food is part of urban-rural growth needs especially in this region that experienced both food crisis and environmental refugees.