10. Concluding Remarks
Over the course of this blog I have tried to attain a better understanding of water, food and development within Africa. Initially I began by outlining the various social, physical and economic factors that I foresaw as complicating the allocation, distribution and production of food across Africa. However, as I have researched more my ideas have changed. The following posts focused upon post-colonial water rights and were the first indication of how much of water and food in Africa was shaped by uneven power relationships at a political, economic, physical and social level. Consequently, in the posts that focus upon post-colonial water rights significant power is lent to countries such as Egypt and furthermore large industrial agricultural plants who are able to purchase water permits. Moreover, the occurrence of water rights was born of colonial rulers attempting to seize power over a resource and as some of these laws have persisted in the post-colonial era so to have the ...
