Brazil–Africa Agricultural Cooperation Encounters: Drivers, Narratives and Imaginaries of Africa and Development

  • Lídia Cabral
  • Alex Shankland
  • Arilson Favareto
  • Alcides Costa Vaz
Volume 44 Number 4
Published: January 21, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-5436.12042
Brazilian development cooperation is increasingly in the spotlight. Africa is a major destination and agriculture tops the list of priority fields on intervention, with Embrapa leading cooperation projects. But patterns of cooperation in Africa are changing as other public, private and civil society actors enter the realm of cooperation and bring along contrasting narratives and experiences of agricultural development. This article maps the evolving nature of Brazilian development cooperation in agriculture and discusses emerging features of the Brazil–Africa encounter, considering knowledge framings, policy narratives, imaginaries and the motivations driving a diversity of technical and political actors.
From Issue: Vol. 44 No. 4 (2013) | China and Brazil in African Agriculture