Terje Tvedt is Professor of Geography at the University of Bergen and Professor of Political Science and Global History at the University of Oslo. He has published extensively on water related topics and presented three successful television documentaries on water, shown in more than 150 countries worldwide. His books include The River Nile in the Age of the British (2004, pbk 2016), A Journey in the Future of Water (2014) and The Nile: River of History (forthcoming), and he is the Series Editor of the pioneering History of Water Series, all published by I.B.Tauris

• Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction: approaches to African food production in a water system perspectiveTerje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard1. Semi-permanent foragers in north and west Africa: an archaeological perspectiveElena A.A. Garcea2. Origin of domestication and aquatic adaptation: the Nile valley in comparative perspectiveRandi Haaland3. How did the Nile water system impact swine husbandry practices in ancient Egypt?Louise Bertini4. A breadbasket, mais encore? The socio-economics of food production in the Nile Delta from antiquity onwardsKatherine Blouin5. Water, migration and settlement in the southern African Iron AgeJohamm W.N Tempelhoff6. The Nile and food in the Early Modern Ottoman EmpireAlan Mikhail7. Do not imagine that every cloud will bring rain: a history of irrigation on Kilimanjaro, TanzaniaMatthew V. Bender8. Water and rural-urban relations in the MaghrebBrock Cutler9. Colonial and post-colonial irrigation efforts in the Office du Niger, inner delta of the Niger, 1900-2000Maurits W. Ertsen10. Water and agricultures in the Niger basin through the twentieth centuryAndrew Ogilvie, Jean Charles Clanet, Georges Serpantié and Jacques Lemoalle11. The lake, bananas and ritual power in BugandaAndrew Reid 12. Dying cows due to climate change? Drought can never finish the Maasai cattle, only the human mouth can (Maasai saying) Marcel Rutten13. Rainfed agriculture, drought and hunger in TanzaniaTerje Oestigaard14. Water-food security systems in the Congo rainforestRaphael M. Tshimanga15. Managing the commons with floods: the role of institutions and power relations for water governance and food resilience in African floodplains Tobias Haller16. Water, labour and politics: Land-use dynamics along the Niger River in MaliTor A. Benjaminsen17. Fishers, herders and rice-farmers communities of the inner Niger delta facing the huge challenge of adapting to weakened floodsPierre Morand, Famory SIinaba and Awa-Niang Fall18. 'Where there is water there are fish': small-scale inland fisheries in Africa: dynamics and importanceJeppe Kolding, Paul A.M. van Zwieten and Ketlhatlogile Mosepele19. Climate change adaptation strategies and food security: a case of the Chewa People in central MalawiJessica Kampanje-Phiri and Dean Kampanje-Phiri20. Land and water for drug, cash for food. Khat Production and Food Security in EthiopiaGessesse Dessie21. Emerging water frontiers in large-scale land acquisitions and implications for food security in AfricaAtakilte Beyene and Emil Sandström22. New perspectives on Saharan mega-aquifers: history, economic value and sustainabilityFridtjov RudenNotesIndex