Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa : foreign direct investment and food and water security / editors, Tony Allan ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allan, J. A. (John Anthony)

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Foreign--Africa.

Investments, Foreign.

Water security.

Food security.

Natural resources.

Land use.

Land tenure.

Africa.

Land tenure--Africa.

Land use--Africa.

Natural resources--Africa.

Food security--Africa.

Water security--Africa.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

Africa as the last 'frontier' of global agriculture has suffered from under-investment in the past 60 years. Today, it is widely perceived as the region where the outcome of global food and water security in the 21st century will be decided. The global rush for land and water has alarmed decision-makers, the media and global civil society in the past five years: the term 'land grabs' was coined as a term to describe a new phase of foreign direct investment in African farmland, joined more recently by the term 'water grabs' to draw attention to the water resources embedded in food (virtual water). Water is the key resource in the investment processes involved in land acquisition. However, most of the analyses to date remain speculative, without taking the issue of water resources into consideration. This volume seeks to shed light on a global phenomenon by analysing past land acquisitions processes, current developments, investors, and the impact on water resources, livelihoods and society in Africa. It is the most comprehensive publication to date on the new enclosure of Africa's farmland.

The editors have assembled a group of expert contributors to examine the issues involved, offering a comprehensive overview of the topic to academics, students, professionals and those with an interest in land and water resources in Africa.

The Handbook is divided into five sections:

Part I: The history of land grabs and the contradictions of development

Part II: Investors' profiles and current investment trends

Part III: The political economy of land and water grabs

Part IV: Environment

Part V: Livelihoods Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / by J.A. (Tony) Allan

Enclosure revisited : putting the global land rush in historical perspective / Liz Alden Wily

Land alienation under colonial and white settler governments in Southern Africa : historical land 'grabbing' / Deborah Potts

Sudan and its agricultural revival : a regional breadbasket at last or another mirage in the desert? / Harry Verhoeven

The contradictions of development : primitive accumulation and geopolitics in the two Sudans / Clemens Hoffmann

The experience of land grab in Liberia / Niels Hahn

Chinese engagement in African agriculture / Deborah Bräutigam

The global food crisis and the Gulf's quest for Africa's agricultural potential / Eckart Woertz

A global enclosure : the geo-logics of Indian agro-investments in Africa / Pádraig Carmody

Private investment in agriculture / Mark Campanale

The role of domestic investors : the arrival of the 'businessmen' in West Africa / Thea Hilhorst and Joost Nelen

'Land grabs' and alternative modalities for agricultural investments in emerging markets / Phil Riddell

Change in trend and new types of large-scale investments in Ethiopia / Philipp Baumgartner

Tapping into al-Andaluz resources : opportunities and challenges for investment in Morocco / N. van Cauwenbergh and S. Idlallene

A blue revolution for Zambia? : large-scale irrigation projects and land and water 'grabs' / Jessica M. Chu

Claiming (back) the land : the geopolitics of Egyptian and South African land and water grabs / Jeroen Warner, Antoinette Sebastian and Vanessa Empinotti

Investing into the next cycle? : land grabs and the green economy / Martin Keulertz

The political economy of land and water grabs / David Zetland and Jennifer Möller-Gulland

Will peak oil cause a rush for land in Africa? / Fabian Kesicki and Julia Tomei

How to govern the global rush for land and water? / Julia Ismar

Keep calm and carry on : what we can learn from the three food price crises of the 1940s, 1970s and 2007/2008 / Johann Custodis

Constructing a new water future? : an analysis of Ethiopia's current hydropower development / Nathanial Matthews, Alan Nicol and Wondwosen Michago Seide

Inverse globalization? : the global agricultural trade system and Asian investments in African land and water resources / Martin Keulertz and Suvi Sojamo

Green and blue water dimensions of foreign domestic investment in biofuel and food production in West Africa : the case of Ghana and Mali / Fred Kizito ... [et al.]

Green and blue water in Africa : how foreign direct investment can support sustainable intensification / Holger Hoff, Dieter Gerten and Katharina Waha

Groundwater in Africa : is there sufficient water to support the intensification of agriculture from 'land grabs'? / Alan M. MacDonald, Richard G. Taylor and Helen C. Bonsor

The water resource implications for and of FDI projects in Africa : a biophysical analysis of opportunity and risk / Mark Mulligan

Analyse to optimise : sustainable intensification of agricultural production through investment in integrated land and water management in Africa / Michael Gilmont and Marta Antonelli

Expectations and implications of the rush for land : understanding the opportunities and risks at stake in Africa / Ward Anseuw, Lorenzo Cotula and Mike Taylor

China-Africa agricultural co-operation, African land tenure reform and sustainable farmland investments / Yongjun Zhao and Xiuli Xiu

Competing narratives of land reform in South Sudan / David Deng

Struggles and resistance against land dispossession in Africa : an overview / Elisa Greco.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1857436695

9781857436693

9780203110942

0203110943

OCLC:

776536238

Publisher Number:

99949953565