Biofuels, land grabbing and food security in Africa
By: edited by Prosper B. Matondi, Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene
Contributors: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Series: Africa now; Africa now (Zed Books)
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781848138797; 9781848138780
Subjects: Food security; Natural resources; Africa; Rural Land use; Energy crops industry; Biobränslen; Naturresurser; Biofuels
Description: 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.
Notes: "Nordiska Afrikainstitutet = The Nordic Africa Institute."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Grabbing of African lands for energy and food : implications for land rights, food security and smallholders / Kjell Havnevik; title: Biofuel governance : a matter of discursive and actor intermesh / Marie Widengård; title: Peak oil and climate change : triggers of the drive for biofuel production / Rune Skarstein; title: Attracting foreign direct investment in Africa in the context of land grabbing for biofuels and food security / Prosper B. Matondi and Patience Mutopo; title: Smallholder-led transformation towards biofuel production in Ethiopia / Atakilte Beyene; title: Biofuel, land and environmental issues : the case of SEKAB's biofuel plans in Tanzania / Kjell Havnevik and Hanne Haaland; title: Agro-investments in Zimbabwe at a time of redistributive land reforms / Prosper B. Matondi; title: Competition between biofuel and food? : evidence from a jatropha biodiesel project in Northern Ghana / Festus Boamah; title: Conclusion : land grabbing, smallholder farmers and the meaning of agro-investor-driven agrarian change in Africa / Prosper B. Matondi, Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene.