Introduction: Peasants, the state and foreign direct investment in African agriculture / Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi -- Catalysing an agricultural revolution in Africa: what role for foreign direct investment? / Fantu Cheru, Renu Modi and Sanusha Naidu -- Agrarian transformation in Africa and its decolonisation / Sam Moyo -- India and Africa: new trends in sustainable agricultural development / Gurjit Singh -- India's strategy for African agriculture: assessing the technology, knowledge and finance platforms / Renu Modi -- Up for grabs: the case of large Indian investments in Ethiopian agriculture / Dessalegn Rahmato -- Indian agricultural companies, 'land grabbing' in Africa and activists' responses / Rick Rowden -- Brazil's cooperation in African agricultural development and food security / Thomas Cooper Patriota and Francesco Maria Pierri -- Brazil, biofuels and food security in Mozambique / Kai Thaler -- South-South cooperation in agriculture: the India, Brazil and South Africa dialogue forum / Alexandra Arkhangelskaya and Albert Khamatshin -- China's food security challenge: what role for Africa? / Simon Freemantle and Jeremy Stevens -- China's agricultural and rural development: lessons for African countries / Xiuli Xu and Xiaoyun Li -- Conclusions and the way forward / Fantu Cheru and Renu Modi.