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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910954045903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, U.K. ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-27672-6; 1-283-60658-5; 9786613919038; 1-136-27673-4; 0-203-11094-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1220 p.)
• Collana: Routledge international handbooks Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa
• Altri autori (Persone): AllanJ. A (John Anthony)
• Disciplina: 332.673096
• Soggetti: Investments, Foreign - Africa; Land tenure - Africa; Land use - Africa; Natural resources - Africa; Food security - Africa; Water security - Africa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; The editors and contributors; Abbreviations; 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 grabbing 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 Domestic land acquisition in West Africa: the rush for farmland by urban 'businessmen'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 Land and water grabs and the green economy3.3 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 2007-2008; 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 Mali4.2 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
• Sommario/riassunto: According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007. Current research has focused on human rights issues related to inward investment in land but has been ignorant of water resource issues and the challenges of managing scarce water. This handbook will be the first to address inward investment in land and its impact on water resources in Africa. The geographical scope of this book will be the African continent, where land has