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Agricultural development and food security in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of Chinese, Indian & Brazilian Investments / / edited by Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi
| Agricultural development and food security in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of Chinese, Indian & Brazilian Investments / / edited by Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi |
| Autore | Cheru Fantu |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Zed Books, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.1096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ModiRenu |
| Collana | Africa Now |
| Soggetto topico |
Agricultural development projects - Africa
Food security - Africa Food supply - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-78032-374-3
1-78032-372-7 1-78032-373-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452704203321 |
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| London, : Zed Books, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Agricultural development and food security in Africa : the impact of Chinese, Indian & Brazilian Investments / / edited by Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi
| Agricultural development and food security in Africa : the impact of Chinese, Indian & Brazilian Investments / / edited by Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.1096 |
| Collana | Africa Now |
| Soggetto topico |
Agricultural development projects - Africa
Food security - Africa Food supply - Africa Development studies |
| 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 | eng |
| 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). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910525669003321 |
| London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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