Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa represents the most substantial collection of research to date on the implications of global investment for the local poor.

James Smith, University of Edinburgh

A timely set of probes into one of Africa's burning issues. It assembles concrete findings of why and how the continent's land resources are being packaged in new forms and served up to outside corporations and sovereign funds to be used to meet the latest scarcities of fuel and food of developed and emerging countries - and how these processes are at the expense of food security in Africa and of the rights and livelihoods of its farmers.

Lionel Cliffe, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds

Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa provides a rigorous and convincing analysis on the unfolding re-colonisation of Africa in the name of foreign investment.

Mandivamba Rukuni, Director, Wisdom Afrika Leadership Academy

This is a most welcome and timely addition to the growing literature on biofuels. It comprises an interesting mix of country (Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana) and broad studies, which raises serious concerns about the future of African smallholder farmers, usefully critiques the famous Brazilian biofuels "success story", and makes a strong and surely unanswerable case for increased African intellectual engagement in this disturbing and highly dangerous field.

Robin Palmer, Mokoro Ltd, Oxford, formerly Global Land Adviser, Oxfam GB