This Transnational Institute paper reviews the role of water in foreign land grabs. Irrigation is crucial to crop cultivation and, according to this paper, there is a high risk that new large-scale commercial agricultural projects will negatively impact existing small producers in sub-Saharan Africa. Water remains on the margins of current debates, but as land grabbing expands exponentially, the implications of water grabbing cannot be ignored.
By P Woodhouse and A S Gahno
October 2011
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