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Priests, technicians and traders? The discursive politics of Brazil’s agricultural cooperation in Mozambique
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015Questions such as whose interests drive Brazil into Africa, what development models are carried along and what is in them for African countries have been guiding research and debates about Brazil’s cooperation in Africa. This paper contributes to this emerging body of work by looking at the specific case of agricultural cooperation.DocumentChinese and Brazilian agricultural models in Mozambique. The case of the Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre and of the Brazilian ProALIMENTOS programme
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015China and Brazil have called increasing attention from the international community, especially in the field of development cooperation. In Africa, for instance, both countries have expanded their development activities and defined agriculture as one of the main sectors to boost mutual cooperation.DocumentA study of Brazilian trilateral development cooperation in Mozambique: the case of ProSAVANA and ProALIMENTOS
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015Brazilian technical cooperation presents itself as apotential alternative to traditional donors’ practices and is often used as a tool of diplomatic relation. The distribution of power in the international system has dramatically changed in the twenty-first century.DocumentChinese agricultural expertise support in Ethiopia: approaches, motives and perspectives
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015The Government of Ethiopia’s (GoE’s) economic growth strategy, Agriculture Development Led Industrialization (ADLI, formulated in 1991), places very high priority on accelerating agricultural growth and achieving food security. Agriculture is also a main focus of the current GoE’s Growth and Transformation Plan, as was also the case for its predecessors.DocumentSituating Tian Ze’s role in reviving Zimbabwe’s flue-cured tobacco sector in the wider discourse on Zimbabwe- China cooperation: will the scorecard remain win-win?
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015The milestone 1998 land reform conference convened by Zimbabwe and major donors ended in a stalemate on how the country was to proceed thereon. In the aftermath of that landmark event, Zimbabwe proceeded unilaterally in implementing a fairly radical land reform programme that saw land owned by almost all white large scale commercial farmers being redistributed among indigenous people.DocumentZimbabwe-Brazil cooperation through the More Food Africa programme
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015The expanding footprint of BRICS countries in Africa, especially over the last 15 years, has remained a subject of intense public interest in academic, development and diplomatic circles. There is some understandable trepidation among traditional donors towards the BRICS approach, and their focus remains on China.DocumentEmerging seed markets: the role of Brazilian, Chinese and Indian seeds in African agriculture
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2014In recent years, three of the largest emerging powers, Brazil, China and India, have all brought about incredible agricultural revolutions and seeds have played a big part in that story. Nowadays, their seed markets are all within the world’s top ten in terms of value and their companies are eager to expand into new markets, particularly in Africa.DocumentChinese agricultural investment in Mozambique: the case of Wanbao rice farm
SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2014The Hubei Gaza Friendship Farm was established in 2007 in Xai-Xai, Mozambique, and has been managed by Wanbao Africa Agriculture Development Limited (WAADL), a private Chinese company, since 2011. CriticsOrganisationSAIS China Africa Research Initiative
The China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) is based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.DocumentBeyond the North-South divide: triangular cooperation in the new development cooperation
BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2015International development cooperation has been changing rapidly during the last two decades. Shifts in international power constellations and a trend towards an increasing multipolarity are reflected in development cooperation institutions and settings.Pages