African Military Geoscience
This eight-chapter volume, African Military Geosciences: Military History and the Physical Environment, is a tour-de-force covering nearly 500 years of African military geosciences. It...
Future Directions of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Africa
Transformation and rapid population growth in Africa indicates that urbanisation is one of the key determinants of the future of social dynamics and development...
The Balancing of Interests in Environmental Law in Africa
"Now that economic development is starting to pick up in many countries in Africa, the question arises how such development can be balanced with...
Africa in a Changing Global Environment
Africa is one continent severely affected by the ravaging effects of global environment change yet it is least responsible for this. The continent's rural...
Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
This open access collection of papers offers technical analyses, policy recommendations and an overview of success stories to date. Each carefully selected paper provides...
West African Agriculture and Climate Change
West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa...
Custodians of the Commons: Pastoral Land Tenure in East & West...
Pastoral land tenure is little understood and even less respected by many African governments and western donors alike, with the consequence that pastoralists throughout...
Land Tenure, Gender and Globalization: Research and Analysis from Africa, Asia,...
Evaluating how land ownership relates to workings of global capital and the lives of both women and men, this analysis draws from field research...
China in Africa: Partner, Competitor or Hegemon?
Nowhere in the world is China's rapid rise to power more evident than in Africa. From multi-billion dollar investments in oil and minerals to...
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues,...
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global...
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year AwardBillions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs,...
Chocolate Nations Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
Chocolate is one of the world's most everyday luxuries, the very word conjuring up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the...
Climate Change in Africa
This book outlines current thinking and evidence on climate change and the impacts such change will have on Africa. Global warming above the level...
Agribusiness in Africa: A study of the impact of big business...
This book provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the role of big business in Africa's agriculture. It exposes the past and...
The Politics of Land Reform in Africa: From Communal Tenure to...
This book examines the trend in Africa today to replace communal forms of customary tenure with Western-type private land tenure arrangements. These are markets...
The New Scramble for Africa
Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa has emerged as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With...
Ethics in Agriculture – An African Perspective
Agriculture is the lifeblood of the majority of people in Africa. It is not just a provider of food, it is a way of...