Land and Water Grabs
The Handbook of Land and Water Grabs: Foreign direct investment and food and water security
Book launch and panel discussion on Sudan, Ethiopia and Gulf Arab investment
4pm on Wednesday 5 December, Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road
This handbook is the first to address inward investment in land and its impact on water resources in Africa, where land has attracted the attention of risk-taking investors because much land is under-utilised marginalised land, with associated water resources and rapidly growing domestic food markets.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781857436693/
Panelists:
Professor Tony Allan, King’s College London (co-editor)
Martin Keulertz, King’s College London (co-editor)
Dr Eckart Woertz, Gulf Research Center, Dubai (contributor)
Dr Harry Verhoeven, University of Oxford (contributor)