Cover -- Africa Now -- About the editors -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables, boxes and figures -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: peasants, the state and foreign direct investment in African agriculture -- Neocolonialism or new opportunity? -- The glass is neither 'half full' nor 'half empty': the need for pragmatism -- Scope of the book -- Changing course: harnessing foreign direct investment to transform African agriculture -- PART I Overview -- 1 Catalysing an agricultural revolution in Africa: what role for foreign direct investment? -- Introduction -- Transforming African agriculture: new opportunities -- Box 1.1 CAADP priorities -- Additional dimensions to consider -- Progress in the implementation of CAADP -- Attracting Southern FDI to develop productive potential -- 1.1 Foreign direct investment inflows by region, 1990-2010 (%) -- The role of FDI in African agriculture: overcoming the burden of history -- Harnessing new partnerships with China, India and Brazil -- China, India and Brazil in African agriculture: an overview -- Box 1.2 Chinese support for African agriculture -- Table 1.1 Chinese-aided agricultural technology: demonstration centres in Africa -- Table 1.2 African countries receiving assistance under the FAO South-South Cooperation initiative -- Box 1.3 First India-Africa Forum Summit (2008) -- Box 1.4 Second India-Africa Forum Summit (2011) -- Measuring the contribution of FDI to African agriculture: technology, finance, knowledge and know-how -- Sharing experience on the institutional imperatives of an agricultural revolution -- Conclusions -- 2 Agrarian transformation in Africa and its decolonisation -- Introduction: peasantries and agrarian transformation -- Accumulation by dispossession in Africa: historical and contemporary trends -- The post-independence experience in agrarian reforms.

Agrarian reforms in the structural adjustment period of the 1980s -- The consequences of neoliberal agricultural reform for food security -- Table 2.1 Number of tractors and harvester-threshers in selected African countries -- Table 2.2 Value of imports and exports of cereals: world versus Africa -- Table 2.3 Consumption of key commodities by sub-regions of Africa in 2004 -- Capitalist crisis, 'third-wave' 'land grabbing' and peasant incorporation -- Table 2.4 Agricultural land acquisitions in Africa (2011) -- Agrarian resistance to neoliberalism: the case of Zimbabwe -- Table 2.5 Estimated landholdings by farmer groups in Zimbabwe (1980, 2000 and 2010) -- Conclusion -- PART II India -- 3 India and Africa: new trends in sustainable agricultural development -- Introduction -- India-Africa cooperation in agriculture: scope and content -- Table 3.1 Proposed locations of agriculture-related institutes in Africa (2012) -- Table 3.2 Africa-India trade growth in eight main agricultural commodities -- Table 3.3 Beneficiaries of India's DFTP scheme (2012) -- Table 3.4 Agricultural and related projects funded through LOCs from EXIM Bank (2003-12) -- The current scenario: how sustainable is the Indian approach of promoting food security through land leases? -- Indian investments in Africa: historical and contemporary trends -- Conclusion -- 4 India's strategy for African agriculture: assessing the technology, knowledge and finance platforms -- India's economic miracle: from food-deficient to food-sufficient country -- 4.1 Major imports of agricultural commodities in India -- 4.2 India's total imports and agricultural imports -- Table 4.1 India's imports and exports of agricultural commodities compared with total national imports/exports -- Table 4.2 Africa's share of India's top food imports -- Indian investments in the agricultural sector of Africa.

Case studies of Indian enterprises -- Table 4.3 Impact of KBL on the output of rice in Senegal (2011) -- Export-Import Bank of India in Africa -- Table 4.4 Distribution of the Indian government's LOCs among world regions (30 August 2012) -- 4.3 Distribution of the Indian government's LOCs among world regions -- Conclusion -- Table 4.5 EXIM Bank LOCs extended to African countries and regions -- 5 Up for grabs: the case of large Indian investments in Ethiopian agriculture -- Introduction -- Policy shift: from peasant farms to large-scale agriculture -- The turn to foreign capital -- Land and foreign capital -- Table 5.1 Land available for investment with the Federal Land Bank of Ethiopia (2010) -- Table 5.2 Indian agricultural investments in Ethiopia (2007-12) -- The balance sheet -- 6 Indian agricultural companies, 'land grabbing' in Africa and activists' responses -- New trends in global 'land grabbing' -- The role of India in the global 'land grab' -- Review of five contracts with Indian agricultural companies in Ethiopia -- Activism against the trend -- Conclusion -- PART III Brazil -- 7 Brazil's cooperation in African agricultural development and food security -- Introduction -- Table 7.1 Official amounts of Brazilian international cooperation (2003-09) -- Technology transfer and capacity building in food crop and biofuel production -- Family farming for food security and sovereignty: policy dialogue and technical cooperation across the value chain -- Conclusion -- 8 Brazil, biofuels and food security in Mozambique -- Introduction -- Brazilian agricultural development and relations with Africa -- Biofuels, land use and food security in Mozambique -- Policy versus practice in Mozambican biofuel projects and effects on food security -- Conclusions: Brazilian ambitions, African economies and defining development.

9 South-South cooperation in agriculture: the India, Brazil and South Africa Dialogue Forum -- Introduction -- South-South science and technology cooperation -- The India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum -- 9.1 IBSA's institutional mechanisms -- Achievements and challenges -- IBSA-Africa cooperation in agriculture -- IBSA Fund for Alleviation of Poverty and Hunger: the case of Guinea-Bissau -- Conclusions and the way forward -- PART IV China -- 10 China's food security challenge: what role for Africa? -- Introduction -- 10.1 Global food price hikes (2008 and 2011) -- Rising demand in China -- 10.2 China's large and increasingly urban population (1950-2050) -- 10.3 China's increasing food consumption (kilograms/litres consumed per capita) -- Increasing strains on agricultural supply -- China's agricultural supply response -- Domestic agricultural production -- 10.4 Household income inequality in China -- 10.5 China's equilibrium in major markets, plus stockpiles -- Box 10.1. Agriculture in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan -- Trade -- 10.6 The rise in China's food imports -- 10.7 Chinese agricultural imports from Africa -- Aid and outward investment -- Table 10.1 Selected Chinese agricultural and agribusiness SOEs operating in Africa (2010) -- Conclusion -- 11 China's agricultural and rural development: lessons for African countries -- Introduction -- Agriculture in China's post-1978 economic transformation -- Agricultural and rural development in China since the reform era -- 11.1 Growth in grain production in China (1978-2010) -- Table 11.1 Share of gross output by sector in China -- 11.2 Percentage share of gross output value by sector in China -- 11.3 Employment and output values of TVEs in China (1978-2010) -- China's broad-based agricultural development strategies -- Box 11.1 Lessons from China's agriculture-led industrialisation experience.

Conclusions: the lessons for African countries in agricultural development -- 12 Conclusions and the way forward -- South-South cooperation in agriculture: opportunities and challenges -- Areas of tensions -- Box 12.1 Land and Africa's development: recommendations of the eighth African Development Forum -- The way forward -- Notes -- About the contriburors -- References -- Index.