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Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa - Foreign direct investment and food and water security (Paperback)
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Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa - Foreign direct investment and food and water security (Paperback)
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
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According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at
the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57
million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors
since 2007. Current research has focused on human rights issues
related to inward investment in land but has been ignorant of water
resource issues and the challenges of managing scarce water. This
handbook will be the first to address inward investment in land and
its impact on water resources in Africa. The geographical scope of
this book will be the African continent, where land has attracted
the attention of risk-taking investors because much land is
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. An
important factor to note is that sub-Saharan Africa will, of all
the continents, be hit hardest by climate change, population growth
and food insecurity. Sensible investment in agriculture is
therefore needed, however, at what costs and at whose expense? The
book will also address the livelihoods theme and provide a holistic
analysis of land and water grabbing in sub-Saharan Africa. Four
other themes will addressed: politics, economics, the environment
and the history of land investments in sub-Saharan Africa. The
editors have involved a highly diverse group of expert researchers,
who will review the pro- and anti-investment arguments,
geopolitics, the role of capitalist investors, the environmental
contexts and the political implications of, and reasons for,
leasing millions of hectares in sub-Saharan Africa. To date, there
has been no attempt to review land investments through a suite of
different lenses, thus this handbook will differ significantly from
existing research and publication. The editors are Tony Allan,
(Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, School of Oriental
and African Studies and King's College London); Jeroen Warner
(Assistant Professor, Disaster Studies, University of Wageningen);
Suvi Sojamo (PhD Researcher, Water and Development Research Group,
Aalto University); and Martin Keulertz (PhD Researcher, Department
of Geography, London Water Group, King's College London).
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