Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa

Abstract

Introduction: Can improving returns to food-water in Africa meet African food needs and the needs of other consumers? J. A. (Tony) Allan Part I: The history of land grabs and the contradictions of development 1.1 Enclosure revisited: putting the global land rush in historical perspective Liz Alden Wily 1.2 Land alienation under colonial and white settler governments in southern Africa: historical land 'grabbing' Deborah Potts 1.3 Sudan and its agricultural revival: a regional breadbasket at last or another mirage in the desert? Harry Verhoeven 1.4 The contradictions of development: primitive accumulation and geopolitics in the two Sudans Clemens Hoffmann 1.5 The experience of land grab in Liberia Niels Hahn Part II: Investors' profiles and current investment trends 2.1 Chinese engagement in African agriculture: fiction and fact Deborah Brautigam 2.2 The global food crisis and the Gulf's quest for Africa's agricultural potential Eckart Woertz 2.3 A global enclosure: the geo-logics of Indian agro-investments in Africa Padraig Carmody 2.4 Private investment in agriculture Mark Campanale 2.5 The role of domestic investors: the arrival of the 'businessmen' in West Africa Thea Hilhorst and Joost Nelen 2.6 'Land grabs' and alternative modalities for agricultural investments in emerging markets Phil Riddell 2.7 Change in trend and new types of large-scale investments in Ethiopia Philipp Baumgartner 2.8 Tapping into Al-Andaluz resources: opportunities and challenges for investment in Morocco Nora Van Cauwenbergh and Samira Idlallene 2.9 A blue revolution for Zambia? Large-scale irrigation projects and land and water 'grabs' Jessica M. Chu 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 Jeroen Warner, Antoinette Sebastian and Vanessa Empinotti 3.2 Investing into the next cycle? Land grabs and the green economy Martin Keulertz 3.3 The political economy of land and water grabs David Zetland and Jennifer Moller-Gulland 3.4 Will peak oil cause a rush for land in Africa? Fabian Kesicki and Julia Tomei 3.5 How to govern the global rush for land and water? Julia Ismar 3.6 Keep calm and carry on: what we can learn from the three food price crises of the 1940s, 1970s and 2007-8 Johann Custodis 3.7 Constructing a new water future? An analysis of Ethiopia's current hydropower development Nathanial Matthews, Alan Nicol and Wondwosen Michago Seide 3.8 Inverse globalisation? The global agricultural trade system and Asian investments in African land and water resources Martin Keulertz and Suvi Sojamo 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 Fred Kizito, Timothy O. Williams, Matthew McCartney and Teklu Erkossa 4.2 Green and blue water in Africa: how foreign direct investment can support sustainable intensification Holger Hoff, Dieter Gerten and Katharina Waha 4.3 Groundwater in Africa: is there sufficient water to support the intensification of agriculture from 'land grabs'? Alan M. MacDonald, Richard G. Taylor and Helen C. Bonsor 4.4 The water resource implications for and of FDI projects in Africa: a biophysical analysis of opportunity and risk Mark Mulligan 4.5 Analyse to optimise: sustainable intensification of agricultural production through investment in integrated land and water management in Africa Michael Gilmont and Marta Antonelli Part V: Livelihoods 5.1 Expectations and implications of the rush for land: understanding the opportunities and risks at stake in Africa Ward Anseuw, Lorenzo Cotula and Mike Taylor 5.2 China-Africa agricultural co-operation, African land tenure reform and sustainable farmland investments Yongjun Zhao and Xiuli Xu 5.3 Competing narratives of land reform in south Sudan David K. Deng 5.4 Struggles and resistance against land dispossession in Africa: an overview Elisa Greco Index