A history of water
Subtitle: Series III, volume 3 : Water and food from hunter-gatherers to global production in Africa
By: edited by Terje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard
Series: Politics & international relations; Politics & international relations (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9781350985087; 9781786731388
Subjects: Water; Political aspects; History; Politics & International Relations
Other titles: Water and food from hunter-gatherers to global production in Africa
Description: "Major changes in policy and management, across the entire agricultural production chain, will be needed to ensure the best use of available water resources in meeting growing demands for food and other agricultural products. This new volume in the successful History of Water Series focuses on the African continent to address this key issue. Humanity has its roots in Africa and many of our food systems developed there. All types of agricultural production are present and the sheer size of the continent offers wide ecological variation from extreme desert to dense rainforest. Drawing together leading international contributors from a wide variety of disciplines Water and Food offers new insights into the evolution of food systems, from early hunter gatherers to the global challenges of the modern world."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Acknowledgements Introduction: approaches to African food production in a water system perspective Terje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard; title: 1. Semi-permanent foragers in north and west Africa: an archaeological perspective / Elena A.A. Garcea; title: 2. Origin of domestication and aquatic adaptation: the Nile valley in comparative                  perspective / Randi Haaland; title: 3. How did the Nile water system impact swine husbandry practices in ancient Egypt? / Louise Bertini; title: 4. A breadbasket, mais encore? The socio-economics of food production in the Nile Delta from antiquity onwards / Katherine Blouin; title: 5. Water, migration and settlement in the southern African Iron Age / Johamm W.N Tempelhoff; title: 6. The Nile and food in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire / Alan Mikhail; title: 7. Do not imagine that every cloud will bring rain: a history of irrigation on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania / Matthew V. Bender; title: 8. Water and rural-urban relations in the Maghreb / Brock Cutler; title: 9. Colonial and post-colonial irrigation efforts in the Office du Niger, inner delta of the Niger, 1900-2000 / Maurits W. Ertsen; title: 10. Water and agricultures in the Niger basin through the twentieth century / Andrew Ogilvie, Jean Charles Clanet, Georges Serpanti  and Jacques Lemoalle; title: 11. The lake, bananas and ritual power in Buganda / Andrew Reid; title: 12. Dying cows due to climate change? Drought can never finish the Maasai cattle,               only the human mouth can (Maasai saying) / Marcel Rutten; title: 13. Rainfed agriculture, drought and hunger in Tanzania / Terje Oestigaard; title: 14. Water-food security systems in the Congo rainforest / Raphael M. Tshimanga; title: 15. Managing the commons with floods: the role of institutions and power relations for water governance and food resilience in African floodplains / Tobias Haller; title: 16. Water, labour and politics: Land-use dynamics along the Niger River in Mali / Tor A. Benjaminsen; title: 17. Fishers, herders and rice-farmers communities of the inner Niger delta facing the huge challenge of adapting to weakened floods / Pierre Morand, Famory SIinaba and Awa-Niang Fall; title: 18. 'Where there is water there are fish': small-scale inland fisheries in Africa: dynamics and importance / Jeppe Kolding, Paul A.M. van Zwieten and Ketlhatlogile Mosepele; title: 19. Climate change adaptation strategies and food security: a case of the Chewa People in central Malawi / Jessica Kampanje-Phiri and Dean Kampanje-Phiri; title: 20. Land and water for drug, cash for food. Khat Production and Food Security in Ethiopia / Gessesse Dessie; title: 21. Emerging water frontiers in large-scale land acquisitions and implications for food security in Africa / Atakilte Beyene and Emil Sandström; title: 22. New perspectives on Saharan mega-aquifers: history, economic value and sustainability / Fridtjov Ruden; title: Notes; title: Index.