LEADER 00726nam0-2200265 --450 001 9910314758503321 005 20190410133417.0 010 $a978-88-6159-661-0 100 $a20190410d2013----kmuy0itay5050 ba 101 $aita 102 $aIT 105 $aa 001yy 200 1 $a<>geografia urbana$fCarla Giovannini 210 $a[Milano]$cBruno Mondadori$d2013 215 $a150 p.$d24 cm 610 0 $aGeografia urbana 676 $a307.76$v22 700 1$aGiovannini,$bCarla$0140152 801 0$aIT$bUNINA$gREICAT$2UNIMARC 901 $ainserire formato 912 $a9910314758503321 952 $aa-g 1044$bbrau/ilfge 2019/38$fILFGE 959 $aILFGE 996 $aGeografia urbana$91073861 997 $aUNINA LEADER 04313nam 2200649 450 001 9910461183303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-939687-6 010 $a0-19-939686-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000470844 035 $a(EBL)4083511 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001545349 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16135848 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001545349 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14050632 035 $a(PQKB)10970909 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4083511 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4083511 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11118572 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL827807 035 $a(OCoLC)936291834 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000470844 100 $a20150507h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWill Africa feed China? /$fDeborah Brautigam 210 1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-939685-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Who Will Feed China? -- Long March: History of Chinese Agricultural Engagement in Africa -- The Mountains are High and the Emperor is Far Away -- Zombie Investments -- Green Shoots -- The Future -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Database of Media Reports and Actual Outcomes -- Endnotes -- Index. 330 $a"Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the Chinese government is aggressively buying up huge tracts of prime African land to grow food to ship back to China. In Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, probes the myths and realities behind the media headlines. Her careful research challenges the conventional wisdom; as she shows, Chinese farming investments are in fact surprisingly limited, and land acquisitions modest. Defying expectations, China actually exports more food to Africa than it imports. Is this picture likely to change? African governments are pushing hard for foreign capital, and China is building a portfolio of tools to allow its agribusiness firms to "go global." International concerns about "land grabbing" are well-justified. Yet to feed its own growing population, rural Africa must move from subsistence to commercial agriculture. What role will China play? Moving from the halls of power in Beijing to remote irrigated rice paddies of Africa, Will Africa Feed China? introduces the people and the politics that will shape the future of this engagement: the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and the entrepreneurial private investors who followed them. Their fascinating stories, and those of the African farmers and officials who are their counterparts, ground Brautigam's deeply informative, deftly balanced reporting. Forcefully argued and empirically rich, Will Africa Feed China? will be a landmark work, shedding new light on China's evolving global quest for food security and Africa's possibilities for structural transformation"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aFood security$zChina 606 $aFood security$zAfrica 606 $aLand settlement$zAfrica 606 $aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects$zAfrica 607 $aChina$xForeign economic relations$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xForeign economic relations$zChina 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFood security 615 0$aFood security 615 0$aLand settlement 615 0$aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects 676 $a338.1/951 700 $aBrautigam$b Deborah$0704393 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461183303321 996 $aWill Africa feed China$91978355 997 $aUNINA