Agricultural development and food security in Africa : the impact of Chinese, Indian & Brazilian Investments / / edited by Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi

• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2013; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.1096
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural development projects - Africa; Food security - Africa; Food supply - Africa; Development studies
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Foreign economic relations China; China Foreign economic relations Africa; Africa Foreign economic relations India; India Foreign economic relations Africa; Africa Foreign economic relations Brazil; Brazil Foreign economic relations Africa
• Persona (resp. second.): Fantu Cheru <1949->; ModiRenu <1963->
• Note generali: Table 3.4 Agricultural and related projects funded through LOCs from EXIM Bank (2003-12).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Africa Now; About the editors; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables, boxes and figures; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: peasants, the state and foreign direct investment in African agriculture; Neocolonialism or new opportunity?; The glass is neither 'half full' nor 'half empty': the need for pragmatism; Scope of the book; Changing course: harnessing foreign direct investment to transform African agriculture; PART I Overview; 1 Catalysing an agricultural revolution in Africa: what role for foreign direct investment?; Introduction; Transforming African agriculture: new opportunities. ; Box 1.1 CAADP prioritiesAdditional dimensions to consider; Progress in the implementation of CAADP; Attracting Southern FDI to develop productive potential; 1.1 Foreign direct investment inflows by region, 1990-2010 (%); The role of FDI in African agriculture: overcoming the burden of history; Harnessing new partnerships with China, India and Brazil; China, India and Brazil in African agriculture: an overview; Box 1.2 Chinese support for African agriculture; Table 1.1 Chinese-aided agricultural technology: demonstration centres in Africa. ; Table 1.2 African countries receiving assistance under the FAO South-South Cooperation initiativeBox 1.3 First India-Africa Forum Summit (2008); Box 1.4 Second India-Africa Forum Summit (2011); Measuring the contribution of FDI to African agriculture: technology, finance, knowledge and know-how; Sharing experience on the institutional imperatives of an agricultural revolution; Conclusions; 2 Agrarian transformation in Africa and its decolonisation; Introduction: peasantries and agrarian transformation; Accumulation by dispossession in Africa: historical and contemporary trends. ; The post-independence experience in agrarian reformsAgrarian reforms in the structural adjustment period of the 1980s; The consequences of neoliberal agricultural reform for food security; Table 2.1 Number of tractors and harvester-threshers in selected African countries; Table 2.2 Value of imports and exports of cereals: world versus Africa; Table 2.3 Consumption of key commodities by sub-regions of Africa in 2004; Capitalist crisis, 'third-wave' 'land grabbing' and peasant incorporation; Table 2.4 Agricultural land acquisitions in Africa (2011). ; Agrarian resistance to neoliberalism: the case of ZimbabweTable 2.5 Estimated landholdings by farmer groups in Zimbabwe (1980, 2000 and 2010); Conclusion; PART II India; 3 India and Africa: new trends in sustainable agricultural development; Introduction; India-Africa cooperation in agriculture: scope and content; Table 3.1 Proposed locations of agriculture-related institutes in Africa (2012); Table 3.2 Africa-India trade growth in eight main agricultural commodities; Table 3.3 Beneficiaries of India's DFTP scheme (2012).
• Sommario/riassunto: This highly original volume presents a critical analysis of the ways in which Chinese, Indian and Brazilian engagements in African agriculture are structured and implemented. Topical and comprehensive, Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa offers fresh insight into a set of relationships that will shape both Africa and the world over the coming decades.
• Titolo autorizzato: Agricultural development and food security in Africa
• ISBN: 1-350-21833-2; 1-78032-374-3; 1-78032-372-7; 1-78032-373-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910525669003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Africa now (Zed Books)