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Will Africa Feed China?
Deborah Brautigam
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Description for Will Africa Feed China?
Hardback. In this clear-eyed and incisive book, one of the world's leading authorities on China's relationship with Africa exposes the myths and realities of the so-called "Chinese land grab". Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1H; JPS; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the Chinese government is aggressively buying up huge tracts of prime African land to grow food to ship back to China. In ... Read more
Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the Chinese government is aggressively buying up huge tracts of prime African land to grow food to ship back to China. In ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
462 g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199396856
SKU
V9780199396856
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About Deborah Brautigam
Deborah Brautigam is Professor and Director of the International Development Program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC and the author of The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa. A long-time observer of Asia and Africa, she has lived in China, West Africa, and Southern Africa, and travelled extensively across both ... Read more
Reviews for Will Africa Feed China?
The book is a delight ... a compelling and much needed argument
Johanna Malm, E International Relations
interesting, thorough
David Pilling, Financial Times
[the book] presents well-informed deductions on a subject that has considerable consequences for the future of world stability... Those working in the fields of food security, Sino-African relations, rise of China and its ... Read more
Johanna Malm, E International Relations
interesting, thorough
David Pilling, Financial Times
[the book] presents well-informed deductions on a subject that has considerable consequences for the future of world stability... Those working in the fields of food security, Sino-African relations, rise of China and its ... Read more