A history of water: Water and food from hunter-gatherers to global production in Africa /: Water and food from hunter-gatherers to global production in Africa. Series III, volume 3 (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Terje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard.
• Editors: Tvedt, Terje; Oestigaard, Terje
• Contents: Semi-permanent foragers in North and West Africa: an archaeological perspective / Elena A.A. Garcea -- Origin of domestication and aquatic adaptation: the Nile valley in comparative perspective / Randi Haaland -- How did the Nile water system impact swine husbandry practices in ancient Egypt? / Louise Bertini -- A breadbasket, Mais Encoure? The socio-economics of food production in the Nile delta from antiquity onwards / Katherine Blouin -- Water, migration and settlement in the Southern African Iron Age / Johann W. N. Tempelhoff -- The Nile and food in the early modern Ottoman empire / Alan Mikhail -- Do not imagine that every cloud will bring rain: a history of irrigation on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania / Matthew V. Bender -- Water and rural-urban relations in the Maghreb / Brock Cutler -- Colonial and post-colonial irrigation efforts in the office du Niger, inner delta of the Niger, 1900-2000 / Maurits W. Ertsen -- Water and agriculture in the Niger basin through the twentieth century / Andrew Ogilvie, Jean Charles Clanet, Georges Serpantié and Jacques Lemoalle -- The lake, bananas and ritual power in Buganda / Andrew Reid -- Dying cows due to climate change? Drought can never finish the Maasai cattle, only the human mouth can (Maasai saying) / Marcel Rutten -- Rainfed agriculture, drought and hunger in Tanzania / Terje Oestigaard -- Water-food security systems in the Congo rainforest / Raphael M. Tshimanga -- Managing the commons with floods: the role of institutions and power relations for water governance and food resilience in African floodplains / Tobias Haller -- Water, labour and politics: land-use dynamics along the Niger river in Mali / Tor A. Benjaminsen -- Fisherman, herders and rice-farmers of the inner Niger delta facing the huge challenge of adapting to weakened floods: a socio-ecological system at risk / Pierre Morand, Famory Sinaba and Awa-Niang Fall -- 'Where there is water, there is fish'. Small-scale inland fisheries in Africa: dynamics and importance / Jeppe Kolding, Paul A.M. van Zwieten and Ketlhatlogile Mosepele -- Climate change adaptation strategies and food security: a case of the Chewa people in central Malawi / Jessica Kampanje-Phiri and Dean Kampanje-Phiri -- Land and water for drugs, cash for food: Khat production and food security in Ethiopia / Gessesse Dessie -- Emerging water frontiers in large-scale land acquisitions and implications for food security in Africa / Atakilte Beyene and Emil Sandström -- New perspectives on Saharan mega-aquifers: history, economic value and sustainability / Fridtjov Ruden.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 569 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 363.6/1096; Water -- Africa -- History; Water -- Political aspects -- Africa; Municipal water supply; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Municipal water supply; Water; Water -- Political aspects; Africa; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786731388; 9781786721389; 1786721384
• Related ISBNs: 178673138X; 9781780769011; 1780769016; 9781780764474; 1780764472; 9781780764481; 1780764480; 9781780768717; 1780768710
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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