Will Africa Feed China? 在线电子书 图书标签: 非洲 农业 中非贸易 政治经济学 中国扩张 土地 经济 社科
发表于2024-12-23
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Brautigam真的是好朋友
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评分用实地调研驳斥西方媒体和NGO界关于中国攫取非洲大片土地、种粮运回国、送大批劳工开垦非洲的报道和传言。指出中国农企的确觊觎非洲农业发展机会,但绝不是有组织的殖民扩张,或有助于非洲农业的现代化和粮食自给。但迄今很多重大项目因为非洲复杂的政治、社会、基建、自然条件加调研不足而失败。
评分Brautigam真的是好朋友
评分用实地调研驳斥西方媒体和NGO界关于中国攫取非洲大片土地、种粮运回国、送大批劳工开垦非洲的报道和传言。指出中国农企的确觊觎非洲农业发展机会,但绝不是有组织的殖民扩张,或有助于非洲农业的现代化和粮食自给。但迄今很多重大项目因为非洲复杂的政治、社会、基建、自然条件加调研不足而失败。
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 regions as a Fulbright researcher and consultant for the World Bank, the UN, and other development agencies.
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 Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, probes the myths and realities behind the media headlines. Her careful research challenges the conventional wisdom; as she shows, Chinese farming investments are in fact surprisingly limited, and land acquisitions modest. Defying expectations, China actually exports more food to Africa than it imports. Is this picture likely to change? African governments are pushing hard for foreign capital, and China is building a portfolio of tools to allow its agribusiness firms to "go global." International concerns about "land grabbing" are well-justified. Yet to feed its own growing population, rural Africa must move from subsistence to commercial agriculture. What role will China play? Moving from the halls of power in Beijing to remote irrigated rice paddies of Africa, Will Africa Feed China? introduces the people and the politics that will shape the future of this engagement: the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and the entrepreneurial private investors who followed them. Their fascinating stories, and those of the African farmers and officials who are their counterparts, ground Brautigam's deeply informative, deftly balanced reporting.
Forcefully argued and empirically rich, Will Africa Feed China? will be a landmark work, shedding new light on China's evolving global quest for food security and Africa's possibilities for structural transformation.
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