Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa
The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments
Herausgeber: Modi, Renu; Cheru, Fantu; Nordic Africa Institute
Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa
The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments
Herausgeber: Modi, Renu; Cheru, Fantu; Nordic Africa Institute
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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.
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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.
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- Africa Now
- Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 280
- Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 446g
- ISBN-13: 9781780323718
- ISBN-10: 1780323719
- Artikelnr.: 37800610
- Africa Now
- Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 280
- Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 446g
- ISBN-13: 9781780323718
- ISBN-10: 1780323719
- Artikelnr.: 37800610
Fantu Cheru received his PhD in political economy from Portland State University. He is a socio-economist who specialises in rural development, small-scale enterprise environmental planning and resource management, urban and regional planning, participatory research methods, and institutional building and training. His latest publications include The Rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions (co-edited with Cyril Obi, 2010) and Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century (co-edited with Scarlett Cornelissen and Timothy M. Shaw, 2011). Renu Modi is a senior lecturer and former director (2008-10) of the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai. She is a political scientist who graduated from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University. She received her PhD from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her recent books are Beyond Relocation: The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement (editor, 2009) and South-South Cooperation: Africa on the Centre Stage (editor, 2011), and she has published on issues relating to India-Africa economic relations from a historical as well as a contemporary perspective in reputed journals. She has also served as the social development consultant with the Inspection Panel of the World Bank.
Preface Introduction: peasants, the state and foreign direct investment in
African agriculture - Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi Part I: Overview 1.
Catalysing an agricultural revolution in Africa: what role for foreign
direct investment? - Fantu Cheru, Renu Modi and Sanusha Naidu 2. Agrarian
transformation in Africa and its decolonisation - Sam Moyo Part II: India
3. India and Africa: new trends in sustainable agricultural development -
Gurjit Singh 4. India's strategy for African agriculture: assessing the
technology, knowledge and finance platforms - Renu Modi 5. Up for grabs:
the case of large Indian investments in Ethiopian agriculture - Dessalegn
Rahmato 6. Indian agricultural companies, 'land grabbing' in Africa and
activists' responses - Rick Rowden Part III: Brazil 7. Brazil's cooperation
in African agricultural development and food security - Thomas Cooper
Patriota and Francesco Maria Pierri 8. Brazil, biofuels and food security
in Mozambique - Kai Thaler 9. South-South cooperation in agriculture: the
India, Brazil and South Africa Dialogue Forum - Alexandra Arkhangelskaya
and Albert Khamatshin Part IV: China 10. China's food security challenge:
what role for Africa? - Simon Freemantle and Jeremy Stevens 11. China's
agricultural and rural development: lessons for African countries - Xiuli
Xu and Xiaoyun Li 12. Conclusions and the way forward - Fantu Cheru and
Renu Modi
African agriculture - Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi Part I: Overview 1.
Catalysing an agricultural revolution in Africa: what role for foreign
direct investment? - Fantu Cheru, Renu Modi and Sanusha Naidu 2. Agrarian
transformation in Africa and its decolonisation - Sam Moyo Part II: India
3. India and Africa: new trends in sustainable agricultural development -
Gurjit Singh 4. India's strategy for African agriculture: assessing the
technology, knowledge and finance platforms - Renu Modi 5. Up for grabs:
the case of large Indian investments in Ethiopian agriculture - Dessalegn
Rahmato 6. Indian agricultural companies, 'land grabbing' in Africa and
activists' responses - Rick Rowden Part III: Brazil 7. Brazil's cooperation
in African agricultural development and food security - Thomas Cooper
Patriota and Francesco Maria Pierri 8. Brazil, biofuels and food security
in Mozambique - Kai Thaler 9. South-South cooperation in agriculture: the
India, Brazil and South Africa Dialogue Forum - Alexandra Arkhangelskaya
and Albert Khamatshin Part IV: China 10. China's food security challenge:
what role for Africa? - Simon Freemantle and Jeremy Stevens 11. China's
agricultural and rural development: lessons for African countries - Xiuli
Xu and Xiaoyun Li 12. Conclusions and the way forward - Fantu Cheru and
Renu Modi
Preface Introduction: peasants, the state and foreign direct investment in
African agriculture - Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi Part I: Overview 1.
Catalysing an agricultural revolution in Africa: what role for foreign
direct investment? - Fantu Cheru, Renu Modi and Sanusha Naidu 2. Agrarian
transformation in Africa and its decolonisation - Sam Moyo Part II: India
3. India and Africa: new trends in sustainable agricultural development -
Gurjit Singh 4. India's strategy for African agriculture: assessing the
technology, knowledge and finance platforms - Renu Modi 5. Up for grabs:
the case of large Indian investments in Ethiopian agriculture - Dessalegn
Rahmato 6. Indian agricultural companies, 'land grabbing' in Africa and
activists' responses - Rick Rowden Part III: Brazil 7. Brazil's cooperation
in African agricultural development and food security - Thomas Cooper
Patriota and Francesco Maria Pierri 8. Brazil, biofuels and food security
in Mozambique - Kai Thaler 9. South-South cooperation in agriculture: the
India, Brazil and South Africa Dialogue Forum - Alexandra Arkhangelskaya
and Albert Khamatshin Part IV: China 10. China's food security challenge:
what role for Africa? - Simon Freemantle and Jeremy Stevens 11. China's
agricultural and rural development: lessons for African countries - Xiuli
Xu and Xiaoyun Li 12. Conclusions and the way forward - Fantu Cheru and
Renu Modi
African agriculture - Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi Part I: Overview 1.
Catalysing an agricultural revolution in Africa: what role for foreign
direct investment? - Fantu Cheru, Renu Modi and Sanusha Naidu 2. Agrarian
transformation in Africa and its decolonisation - Sam Moyo Part II: India
3. India and Africa: new trends in sustainable agricultural development -
Gurjit Singh 4. India's strategy for African agriculture: assessing the
technology, knowledge and finance platforms - Renu Modi 5. Up for grabs:
the case of large Indian investments in Ethiopian agriculture - Dessalegn
Rahmato 6. Indian agricultural companies, 'land grabbing' in Africa and
activists' responses - Rick Rowden Part III: Brazil 7. Brazil's cooperation
in African agricultural development and food security - Thomas Cooper
Patriota and Francesco Maria Pierri 8. Brazil, biofuels and food security
in Mozambique - Kai Thaler 9. South-South cooperation in agriculture: the
India, Brazil and South Africa Dialogue Forum - Alexandra Arkhangelskaya
and Albert Khamatshin Part IV: China 10. China's food security challenge:
what role for Africa? - Simon Freemantle and Jeremy Stevens 11. China's
agricultural and rural development: lessons for African countries - Xiuli
Xu and Xiaoyun Li 12. Conclusions and the way forward - Fantu Cheru and
Renu Modi