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Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in Africa

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Examines the effects of large-scale biofuel production, seen as having a positive impact on African national economies and greenhouse gases. Finds negative implications as well, especially in developmental and environmental areas.

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Cover of: Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa
Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa
2011, Zed Books, Limited
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Cover of: Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in Africa
Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in Africa
2011, Zed Books, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa
Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa
2011, Zed Books, Limited
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Table of Contents

Grabbing of African lands for energy and food : implications for land rights, food security and smallholders / Kjell Havnevik
Biofuel governance : a matter of discursive and actor intermesh / Marie Widengård
Peak oil and climate change : triggers of the drive for biofuel production / Rune Skarstein
Attracting foreign direct investment in Africa in the context of land grabbing for biofuels and food security / Prosper B. Matondi and Patience Mutopo
Smallholder-led transformation towards biofuel production in Ethiopia / Atakilte Beyene
Biofuel, land and environmental issues : the case of SEKAB's biofuel plans in Tanzania / Kjell Havnevik and Hanne Haaland
Agro-investments in Zimbabwe at a time of redistributive land reforms / Prosper B. Matondi
Competition between biofuel and food? : evidence from a jatropha biodiesel project in Northern Ghana / Festus Boamah
Conclusion : land grabbing, smallholder farmers and the meaning of agro-investor-driven agrarian change in Africa / Prosper B. Matondi, Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene.

Edition Notes

"Nordiska Afrikainstitutet = The Nordic Africa Institute."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-220) and index.

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London, New York, New York
Series
Africa now, Africa now (Zed Books)

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Library of Congress
HD9502.5.B543 A56 2011, HN773.5, HD9502.5.B543 A353 2011

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Pagination
xii, 230 p. :
Number of pages
230

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OL25194561M
Internet Archive
biofuelslandgrab00mato
ISBN 10
1848138792, 1848138784
ISBN 13
9781848138797, 9781848138780
LCCN
2011284618
OCLC/WorldCat
681872574

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