Rising Powers in African agriculture: Are China and Brazil bringing new paradigms to agricultural development cooperation?

中国和巴西不仅正在成为非洲国际发展合作的新的重要参与者;沿着其他新兴大国，它们还声称正在以一种新的方式开展工作，其特点是团结、相互学习和“双赢”交流，而不是条件、控制和单向知识转让。有人声称，这相当于一种“新的模式”，与老牌捐助国（其中许多是前殖民国家）近几十年来所采取的做法形成了鲜明对比。这项研究将探讨农业发展合作部门的这些问题，这对撒哈拉以南非洲的可持续发展和减贫至关重要-以及英国，这既是非洲农业的主要援助提供者（无论是直接还是通过国际农业研究咨询小组等国际组织），也是非洲农产品的主要消费者。在农业和其他领域，英国与新兴大国一样，认为非洲是主要资源和不断增长的市场的重要来源，这意味着了解非洲大陆农业发展合作的变化格局对英国的经济和外交政策利益至关重要。该项目将通过创新的国际伙伴关系实施。这将把来自英国和一系列非洲国家机构的研究人员与来自中国和巴西的同事联系起来，这些研究人员已经通过由IDS领导的成熟和有影响力的未来发展联盟建立了联系，这些同事正在积极研究他们国家的新发展合作项目。拟议的研究将开始，首先是制图阶段，这将产生中国和巴西在非洲农业发展合作项目的第一个综合地理参考数据库。随后将对在埃塞俄比亚、加纳、莫桑比克和津巴布韦开展的这些项目进行深入的个案研究。这些案例研究将探讨中国和巴西的经验和专门知识如何与非洲农业的现实以及非洲科学家和农民的观点相结合。对项目、国家和干预措施类型进行比较分析，将解决发展合作的“新模式”是否实际上正在出现的问题，并评估其对未来援助政策的影响。这反过来又将有助于与非洲、巴西、中国和英国以及主要国际论坛的政策进程保持接触，包括将在2013年和2014年英国和俄罗斯担任八国集团主席期间就千年发展目标2015年到期后的发展前景进行的讨论。新兴大国和相互依存的未来呼吁的所有主题。

China and Brazil are not only emerging as major new players in international development cooperation in Africa; along with other Rising Powers, they are also claiming to be working in a new way, characterised by solidarity, mutual learning and "win-win" exchanges rather than conditionality, control and one-way knowledge transfer. Some claim that this amounts to a "new paradigm", contrasted with the approaches followed over recent decades by the established donor countries (many of which are former colonial powers). This study will examine these issues in the agricultural development cooperation sector, which is critically important for sustainable development and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa - as well as for the UK, which is both a major provider of aid to African agriculture (whether directly or through international organisations like the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) and a major consumer of African agricultural produce. In agriculture as in other sectors, the UK shares with the Rising Powers a perception that Africa is an important source of primary resources and growing markets, which means that understanding the changing landscape of agricultural development cooperation on the continent is important for the UK economically as well as foreign policy interests.The project will be carried out through an innovative international partnership. This will connect researchers from institutions in the UK and a range of African countries, who are already linked through the well-established and influential IDS-led Future Agricultures Consortium, with colleagues from China and Brazil who are actively engaged in studying their countries' new development cooperation engagements. The proposed research will begin with a mapping phase that will generate the first comprehensive geo-referenced database of Chinese and Brazilian agricultural development cooperation projects in Africa. This will be followed by in-depth case studies of a sample of these projects taking place in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The case studies will examine the ways in which experience and expertise from China and Brazil engage with the realities of African agriculture and the perspectives of African scientists and farmers. Comparative analysis across projects, countries and types of intervention will address the question of whether "new paradigms" of development cooperation are actually emerging, and assess their implications for the future of aid policy. This in turn will contribute to an ongoing process of engagement with policy processes in Africa, Brazil, China and the UK, as well as in key international fora, including the discussions that will take place under the UK and Russian Presidencies of the G8 in 2013 and 2014 on the future of development beyond the expiry in 2015 of the Millennium Development Goals.This project addresses issues raised under all the themes of the Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures Call.