Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in Africa. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Prosper B. Matondi, Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene.
• Other Names: Matondi, Prosper Bvumiranayi; Havnevik, Kjell J; Atakilte Beyene
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Zed Books Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 230 pages), maps
• Subjects: 307.720967; Energy crops industry -- Social aspects -- Africa; Land use, Rural -- Africa; Food security -- Africa; biofuels; natural resources; food security; africa; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural; Food security; Land use, Rural; Biobränslen -- Afrika; Naturresurser -- Afrika; Africa; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848138803; 1848138806; 1283172003; 9781283172004; 1848138814; 9781848138810; 9786613172006; 6613172006
• Related ISBNs: 9781848138797; 1848138792; 9781848138780; 1848138784
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-220) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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