Call number:
PIK B 333-13-0003
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction: Can improving returns to food-water in Africa meet African food needs and the needs of other consumers? ; Part I: The history of land grabs and the contradictions of development ; 1.1 Enclosure revisited: putting the global land rush in historical perspective ; 1.2 Land alienation under colonial and white settler governments in southern Africa: historical land 'grabbing' ; 1.3 Sudan and its agricultural revival: a regional breadbasket at last or another mirage in the desert? ; 1.4 The contradictions of development: primitive accumulation and geopolitics in the two Sudans ; 1.5 The experience of land grab in Liberia ; Part II: Investors-profiles and current investment trends ; 2.1 Chinese engagement in African agriculture: fiction and fact ; 2.2 The global food crisis and the Gulf's quest for Africa's agricultural potential ; 2.3 A global enclosure: the geo-logics of Indian agro-investments in Africa ; 2.4 Private investment in agriculture ; 2.5 The role of domestic investors: the arrival of the 'businessmen' in West Africa ; 2.6 'Land grabs' and alternative modalities for agricultural investments in emerging markets ; 2.7 Change in trend and new types of large-scale investments in Ethiopia ; 2.8 Tapping into Al-Andaluz resources: opportunities and challenges for investment in Morocco ; 2.9 A blue revolution for Zambia? Large-scale irrigation projects and land and water 'grabs' ; Part III: The political economy of land and water grabs ; 3.1 Claiming (back) the land: the geopolitics of Egyptian and South African land and water grabs ; 3.2 Investing into the next cycle? Land grabs and the green economy ; 3.3 The political economy of land and water grabs ; 3.4 Will peak oil cause a rush for land in Africa? ; 3.5 How to govern the global rush for land and water? ; 3.6 Keep calm and carry on: what we can learn from the three food price crises of the 1940s, 1970s and 2007-8 ; 3.7 Constructing a new water future? An analysis of Ethiopia's current hydropower development ; 3.8 Inverse globalisation? The global agricultural trade system and Asian investments in African land and water resources ; Part IV: Environment ; 4.1 Green and blue water dimensions of foreign direct investment in biofuel and food production in West Africa: the case of Ghana and Mali ; 4.2 Green and blue water in Africa: how foreign direct investment can support sustainable intensification ; 4.3 Groundwater in Africa: is there sufficient water to support the intensification of agriculture from 'land grabs'? ; 4.4 The water resource implications for and of FDI projects in Africa: a biophysical analysis of opportunity and risk ; 4.5 Analyse to optimise: sustainable intensification of agricultural production through investment in integrated land and water management in Africa ; Part V: Livelihoods ; 5.1 Expectations and implications of the rush for land: understanding the opportunities and risks at stake in Africa ; 5.2 China-Africa agricultural co-operation, African land tenure reform and sustainable farmland investments ; 5.3 Competing narratives of land reform in south Sudan ; 5.4 Struggles and resistance against land dispossession in Africa: an overview
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XXIII, 488 S. : graph. Darst.
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
9781857436693
Series Statement:
Routledge international handbooks
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
