Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa

Fantu Cheru received his PhD in political economy from Portland State University. He is a socio-economist who specialises in rural development, small-scale enterprise environmental planning and resource management, urban and regional planning, participatory research methods, and institutional building and training. His latest publications include The Rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions (co-edited with Cyril Obi, 2010) and Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century (co-edited with Scarlett Cornelissen and Timothy M. Shaw, 2011).Renu Modi is a senior lecturer and former director (2008-10) of the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai. She is a political scientist who graduated from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University. She received her PhD from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her recent books are Beyond Relocation: The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement (editor, 2009) and South-South Cooperation: Africa on the Centre Stage (editor, 2011), and she has published on issues relating to India-Africa economic relations from a historical as well as a contemporary perspective in reputed journals. She has also served as the social development consultant with the Inspection Panel of the World Bank.

• PrefaceIntroduction: peasants, the state and foreign direct investment in African agriculture - Fantu Cheru and Renu ModiPart I: Overview1. Catalysing an agricultural revolution in Africa: what role for foreign direct investment? - Fantu Cheru, Renu Modi and Sanusha Naidu2. Agrarian transformation in Africa and its decolonisation - Sam MoyoPart II: India3. India and Africa: new trends in sustainable agricultural development - Gurjit Singh4. India's strategy for African agriculture: assessing the technology, knowledge and finance platforms - Renu Modi5. Up for grabs: the case of large Indian investments in Ethiopian agriculture - Dessalegn Rahmato6. Indian agricultural companies, 'land grabbing' in Africa and activists' responses - Rick RowdenPart III: Brazil7. Brazil's cooperation in African agricultural development and food security - Thomas Cooper Patriota and Francesco Maria Pierri8. Brazil, biofuels and food security in Mozambique - Kai Thaler9. South-South cooperation in agriculture: the India, Brazil and South Africa Dialogue Forum - Alexandra Arkhangelskaya and Albert KhamatshinPart IV: China10. China's food security challenge: what role for Africa? - Simon Freemantle and Jeremy Stevens11. China's agricultural and rural development: lessons for African countries - Xiuli Xu and Xiaoyun Li12. Conclusions and the way forward - Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi

Global power structures are changing at an ever rapid pace. Now more than ever, our concepts and understandings are playing a game of catch-up to reality. Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa offers unsentimental and timely analyses of new forms of South-South integration, subordination and alienation. Cheru and Modi demonstrate how land - with its double dimensions as territory and property - is at the heart of these dynamics.