Programme Water and Food – Africa in a Global Context

Programme
Water and Food – Africa in a Global Context
Workshop 23-24 October, 2014 in Uppsala
Understanding water and food in Africa in a historic and comparative context may enable new
insights into the evolution of food systems from the early humans to today’s challenges in the global
world. The ecological variation from extreme deserts to rainforests enables unique comparisons of
food systems, adaptations and technological innovations at different points in history. Throughout
history, too much or too little water for food production at the right time for cultivation has been a
matter of plenty or famine, and life or death.
Thursday 23 October: Geocentrum, conference hall Småland, Villavägen 16
0900-0930
Welcome and introduction
Terje Oestigaard & Terje Tvedt
Paul Lane
Part 1: Water and early food systems
0930-10.00
Semi-permanent foragers in North Africa – An archaeological perspective
Elena A.A. Garcea
10.00-10.30
Origin of domestication and aquatic adaptation – the Nile valley in
comparative perspective
Randi Håland
1030-11.00
How did the Nile water system impact swine husbandry practices in ancient
Egypt?
Louise Bertini
11.00-11-30 A regional breadbasket? The socio-politics of food production in the Nile Delta
from Antiquity onwards
Katherine Blouin
Part 2: Irrigation pre-independence and post-independence
11.30-12.00
Pre-Colonial Irrigation in Southern Africa: Water and agriculture in a historic
perspective
Johann Tempelhoff
12.00-12.30
Water and rural-urban relations in the Maghreb
Brock Cutler
12.30- 14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30
Do Not Imagine that Every Cloud will Bring Rain: A History of Irrigation on
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Matthew Bender
14.30-15.00
An end has a start. Colonial and post-colonial irrigation efforts in Africa, 19002000
Maurits W. Ertsen
Part 3: Seasonal variation, climate changes and adaptation in diverse ecosystems
15.00-15.30
Dying cows due to climate change? Drought can never finish the Maasai
cattle, only the human mouth can
Marcel Rutten
15.30-1600
Coffee
16.00-16.30
Water, labour and land: Agro-pastoral dynamics in the Sahelian zone in Mali
Tor Benjaminsen
16.30-17.00
Food production in the Niger basin: coping with hydrological changes
Andrew Ogilvie (presenter), Jean Charles Clanet, Georges Serpantié & Jacques
Lemoalle
17.00-17-30 Water-Food Security System Analysis in the Context of Climate Change in the
Congo Rainforest
Raphael Tshimanga
Friday 24 October: Geocentrum, conference hall Hamberg, Villavägen 16
09.30-10.00
Managing the Commons with Floods: The role of institutions and power relations for
water governance and food resilience in African Floodplains
Tobias Haller
10.00-10.30
Food and Environmental Security in African Wetlands
Dalitso Kafumbata
10.30-11.00
New perspectives on Saharan mega-aquifers: Their history, economic value
and sustainability
Fridtjov Ruden
11.00-11.30
Fishers, herders and rice-farmers communities of the Inner Niger Delta
facing the huge challenge of adaptation to weakened floods
Pierre Morand (presenter), Famory Sinaba & Awa Niang-Fall
11.30-12.00
Food from water – Small-scale inland fisheries in Africa: dynamics and
importance
Jeppe Kolding (presenter) and Paul van Zwieten
12.00-13-30 Lunch
Part 4: Globalisation of water and food
13.30-14.00
Emerging water frontiers: Agricultural FDI, large-scale land deals and food
security in Africa
Atakilte Beyene, Emil Sandström & Kjell Havnevik
14.00-14.30
Land for drug – cash for food: Khat Production and Food Security in
Ethiopia
Gessesse Dessie
14.30-15.00
Flowers or food? Kenyan conflicts of water use
Alfred Anangwe