Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in Africa / edited by Prosper B. Matondi, Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene.

• 1. Introduction: Biofuels, Food Security and Land Outsourcing -- 2. Land Rights, Livelihoods Justice and the Internationalization of the Search for Food Security and Energy -- 3. Peak Oil, and the Push for Bio-fuel by Industrialized Nations -- 4. Suspending People's Resource Rights: The Demand for Foreign Direct Investment in Africa in the Context of Innovations on Bio-fuels -- 5. Smallholder-Led Transformation Towards Bio-fuel Production in Ethiopia -- 6. Bio-fuel, Land Outsourcing and the Process of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Tanzania -- 7. The Push for Bio-fuels in the Context of the Political Economy Crisis in Zimbabwe -- 8. The Effect of the Spread of Jatropha Production on Food Security in Northern Ghana -- 9. Who Governs Bio-fuels?: Lessons and Reflections on Social Inclusion and Bio-diesel Policy in Brazil. What Can Africa Learn? -- 10. Lessons and Reflections on Brazilian Ethanol Development. What Can Africa Learn? -- 11. Setting A New Agenda for Smallholder Farmers in the Context of Bio-fuels: A Synthesis. 

Ämnesord

Energy crops industry  -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. (LCSH)

Land use, Rural  -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. (LCSH)

Food security  -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. (LCSH)

biofuels  (agrovoc)

land grabbing  (agrovoc)

natural resources  (agrovoc)

food security  (agrovoc)

africa  (agrovoc)

Biobränslen  -- Afrika (sao)

Naturresurser  -- Afrika (sao)

food  -- security -- energy -- social conditions -- agriculture -- Africa (sipri)

Africa  -- environment -- development (sipri)

Africa, Sub-Saharan  -- Rural conditions.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Oabbc-p Landsbygdssociologi: Afrika

Klassifikation

307.720967 (DDC)

Oabbc-p (kssb/8)