Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa : foreign direct investment and food and water security / editors, Tony Allan ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / J.A. (Tony) Allan -- Enclosure revisited : putting the global land rush in historical perspective / Liz Alden Wily -- Land alienation under colonial and white settler governments in southern Africa : historical land 'grabbing' / Deborah Potts -- Sudan and its agricultural revival : a regional breadbasket at last or another mirage in the desert? / Harry Verhoeven -- The contradictions of development : primitive accumulation and geopolitics in the two Sudans / Clemens Hoffmann -- The experience of land grabbing in Liberia / Niels Hahn -- Chinese engagement in African agriculture : fiction and fact / Deborah Br衵tigam -- The global food crisis and the Gulf's quest for Africa's agricultural potential / Eckart Woertz -- A global enclosure : the geo-logics of Indian agro-investments in Africa / P{u2864}raig Carmody -- Private investment in agriculture / Mark Campanale -- Domestic land acquisition in West Africa : the rush for farmland by urban 'businessmen' / Thea Hilhorst and Joost Nelen -- 'Land grabs' and alternative modalities for agricultural investments in emerging markets / Phil Riddell -- Change in trend and new types of large-scale investments in Ethiopia / Philipp Baumgartner -- Tapping into Al-Andaluz resources : opportunities and challenges for investment in Morocco / Nora Van Cauwenbergh and Samira Idlallene -- A blue revolution for Zambia? Large-scale irrigation projects and land and water 'grabs' / Jessica M. Chu --

Claiming (back) the land : the geopolitics of Egyptian and South African land and water grabs / Jeroen Warner, Antoinette Sebastian and Vanessa Empinotti -- Land and water grabs and the green economy / Martin Keulertz -- The political economy of land and water grabs / David Zetland and Jennifer M诬ler-Gulland -- Will peak oil cause a rush for land in Africa? / Fabian Kesicki and Julia Tomei -- How to govern the global rush for land and water? / Julia Ismar -- Keep calm and carry on : what we can learn from the three food price crises of the 1940s, 1970s and 2007-2008 / Johann Custodis -- Constructing a new water future? An analysis of Ethiopia's current hydropower development / Nathanial Matthews, Alan Nicol and Wondwosen Michago Seide -- Inverse globalisation? The global agricultural trade system and Asian investments in African land and water resources / Martin Keulertz and Suvi Sojamo -- 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 ... [and others] -- Green and blue water in Africa : how foreign direct investment can support sustainable intensification / Holger Hoff, Dieter Gerten and Katharina Waha -- 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 -- The water resource implications for and of FDI projects in Africa : a biophysical analysis of opportunity and risk / Mark Mulligan -- Analyse to optimise : sustainable intensification of agricultural production through investment in integrated land and water management in Africa / Michael Gilmont and Marta Antonelli -- Expectations and implications of the rush for land : understanding the opportunities and risks at stake in Africa / Ward Anseuw, Lorenzo Cotula and Mike Taylor -- China-Africa agricultural co-operation, African land tenure reform and sustainable farmland investments / Yongjun Zhao and Xiuli Xiu -- Competing narratives of land reform in South Sudan / David K. Deng -- Struggles and resistance against land dispossession in Africa : an overview / Elisa Greco.