Deborah Brautigam, Will Africa Feed China?

Abstract

Chinese farming investments in Africa have made the headlines following the 2008 global food crisis, when the global media spread reports of a foreign investment land rush in developing countries with the backing of national governments. This process, also dubbed land grab, is motivated by agroindustrial projects spread over thousands of hectares meeting not local demand but rather the markets of emerging economies or the agrofuel sectors of industrialised countries. China has been scapegoat...