Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin
The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much contested development, not only between upstream and downstream neighbours, but also from countries outside the region. This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile Basin.
It explains how the current surge in land and energy investments, both by foreign actors as well as domestic investors, affects already strained trans-boundary relations in the region and how investments are intertwined within wider contexts of Nile Basin history, politics and economy. Overall, the book presents a range of perspectives, drawing on political science, international relations theory, sociology, history and political ecology.
Emil Sandstrm is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, and Senior Lecturer and former Head of the Rural Development division at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).
Anders Jgerskog is Counsellor for regional water issues in the Middle East and North Africa for the Embassy of Sweden in Amman, Jordan, and Associate Professor at the School of Global Studies at Gteborg University, Sweden. He is former Head of the Transboundary Unit at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).
Terje Oestigaard is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, and Docent in Archeology at Uppsala University.
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Names: Sandstroem, Emil, editor. | Jaegerskog, Anders, editor. | Oestigaard,
Terje.Title: Land and hydropolitics in the Nile River basin : challenges and new
investments / edited by Emil Sandstroem, Anders Jaegerskog and Terje Oestigaard.
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index.Identifiers: LCCN 2016009964| ISBN 9781138921757 (hbk) | ISBN
9781315686172 (ebk)Subjects: LCSH: Water-supply--Nile River Watershed-
-Management. | Water-supply--Political aspects--Nile River Watershed. |
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This book has its origin in the research project entitled Water Politics in the Nile Basin Emerging Land Acquisitions and the Hydro-Political Landscape financed by the Swedish Research Council and implemented by the Nordic Africa Institute, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), together with various partner institutions in the Nile Basin. We greatly acknowledge the support provided by the Swedish Research Council and our host institutions.
Some of the results have been disseminated during a number of conferences and workshops, and the editors acknowledge the insights and valuable comments during these events. Three events deserve particular gratitude. First, the session Investments in Land & Water in the Nile Basin and TWM Nexus held at the 2013 World Water Week, Stockholm. Second, the Authority, Territory, Community: Regional Dynamics of Water, Land Tenure Regimes and State Formation in Africa workshop, organized in Kampala in October 2013. Finally, the workshop Transformation in Smallholder Agriculture in and Around the Lake Tana Basin held in Bahir Dar in Ethiopia in August 2015. With regards to these workshops, we would like to thank SIWI, the Nile Basin Programme, Professor Edward K. Kirumira, Dr Tore Saetersdal, Dr Anders Sjgren, Dr Opira Otto, Dr Gedef Abawa Firew and the Vice President of Research and Community Service of the Bahir Dar University, Dr Tesfaye Shiferaw.
Finally, as editors we would also like to express our gratitude to all contributors for their outstanding cooperation throughout the project and, in particular, during the final months. A sincere appreciation to Ashley Wright and Tim Hardwick from Routledge for their invaluable guidance in the process of making this book, and the two anonymous reviewers.
Uppsala, Sweden and Amman, Jordan, May 2016.
Emil Sandstrm, Anders Jgerskog and Terje Oestigaard
