Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa

This handbook will be the first to address inward investment in land and its impact on water resources in Africa, where land has attracted the attention of risk-taking investors because of the amount of under-utilised marginalized land, with associated water resources and rapidly growing domestic food markets. The successful implementation of investment strategies in African agriculture could determine the future of more than one billion people at risk from climate change, population growth and food insecurity.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Tony Allan; Part I The history of land grabs and the contradictions of development, Tony Allan, Martin Keulertz, Suvi Sojamo, Jeroen Warner; Chapter 2 Enclosure revisited, Liz Alden Wily; Chapter 3 Land alienation under colonial and white settler governments in southern Africa, Deborah Potts; Chapter 4 Sudan and its agricultural revival, Harry Verhoeven; Chapter 5 The contradictions of development, Clemens Hoffmann; Chapter 6 The experience of land grabbing in Liberia, Niels Hahn; Part II Investors' profiles and current investment trends, Tony Allan, Martin Keulertz, Suvi Sojamo, Jeroen Warner; Chapter 7 Chinese engagement in African agriculture, Deborah Bräutigam; Chapter 8 The global food crisis and the Gulf's quest for Africa's agricultural potential, Eckart Woertz; Chapter 9 A global enclosure, Pádraig Carmody; Chapter 10 Private investment in agriculture, Mark Campanale; Chapter 11 Domestic land acquisitions in West Africa, Thea Hilhorst, Joost Nelen; Chapter 12 'Land grabs' and alternative modalities for agricultural investments in emerging markets, Phil Riddell; Chapter 13 Change in trend and new types of large-scale investments in Ethiopia, Philipp Baumgartner; Chapter 14 Tapping into Al-Andaluz resources, Nora Van Cauwenbergh, Samira Idllalene; Chapter 15 A blue revolution for Zambia?, Jessica M. Chu; Part III The political economy of land and water grabs, Tony Allan, Martin Keulertz, Suvi Sojamo, Jeroen Warner; Chapter 16 Claiming (back) the land, Jeroen Warner, Antoinette Sebastian, Vanessa Empinotti; Chapter 17 Land and water grabs and the green economy, Martin Keulertz; Chapter 18 The political economy of land and water grabs, David Zetland; Chapter 19 Will peak oil cause a rush for land in Africa?, Fabian Kesicki, Julia Tomei; Chapter 20 How to govern the global rush for land and water?, Julia Ismar; Chapter 21 Keep calm and carry on, Johann Custodis; Chapter 22 Constructing a new water future?, Nathanial Matthews, Alan Nicol, Wondwosen Michago Seide; Chapter 23 Inverse globalisation?, Martin Keulertz, Suvi Sojamo; Part IV Environment, Tony Allan, Martin Keulertz, Suvi Sojamo, Jeroen Warner; Chapter 24 Green and blue water dimensions of foreign direct investment in Green and blue water in Africa, Holger Hoff, Dieter Gerten, Katharina Waha; Chapter 26 Groundwater in Africa, Alan M. MacDonald, Richard G. Taylor, Helen C. Bonsor; Chapter 27 The water resource implications for and of FDI projects in Africa, Mark Mulligan; Chapter 28 Analyse to optimise, Michael Gilmont; Part V Livelihoods, Tony Allan, Martin Keulertz, Suvi Sojamo, Jeroen Warner; Chapter 29 Expectations and implications of the rush for land, Ward Anseeuw, Lorenzo Cotula, Mike Taylor; Chapter 30 China-Africa agricultural co-operation, African land tenure reform and sustainable farmland investments, Yongjun Zhao, Xiuli Xu; Chapter 31 Competing narratives of land reform in South Sudan, David K. Deng; Chapter 32 Struggles and resistance against land dispossession in Africa, Elisa Greco;