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How Brazil's Agrarian Dynamics Shape Development Cooperation in Africa

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This article shows how Brazil's history of agrarian dynamics shapes development cooperation. In particular, Brazil's dualistic agrarian structure frames policy discourse, and shapes development cooperation thinking and practice. Given Brazil's recent experience of rural poverty reduction, the article argues that a focus on ‘family farming’ is potentially the most productive form of engagement in development cooperation. This is illustrated through an analysis of Brazilian cooperation promoted by the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA), and in particular its More Food International Programme. While Brazilian family farms are very different to those found in Africa, there can be a productive exchange of experience, expertise and equipment. Key lessons from the Brazilian experience are the need for state backing and support, providing social security for the poor, offering financial support and technical expertise for family farming and the existence of effective social mobilisation by civil society.

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  • Francesco Maria Pierri, 2013. "How Brazil's Agrarian Dynamics Shape Development Cooperation in Africa," IDS Bulletin, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 44(4), pages 69-79, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:idsxxx:v:44:y:2013:i:4:p:69-79
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    1. Cabral, Lídia & Favareto, Arilson & Mukwereza, Langton & Amanor, Kojo, 2016. "Brazil’s Agricultural Politics in Africa: More Food International and the Disputed Meanings of “Family Farming”," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 47-60.
    2. Stavros Afionis & Lindsay C. Stringer & Nicola Favretto & Julia Tomei & Marcos S. Buckeridge, 2016. "Unpacking Brazil’s Leadership in the Global Biofuels Arena: Brazilian Ethanol Diplomacy in Africa," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 16(3), pages 127-150, August.
    3. Zanella, Matheus A. & Milhorance, Carolina, 2016. "Cerrado meets savannah, family farmers meet peasants: The political economy of Brazil’s agricultural cooperation with Mozambique," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 70-81.
    4. Carolina Milhorance & Marcel Bursztyn, 2017. "South-South civil society partnerships: renewed ties of political contention and policy building," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 35, pages 80-95, October.
    5. Scoones, Ian & Amanor, Kojo & Favareto, Arilson & Qi, Gubo, 2016. "A New Politics of Development Cooperation? Chinese and Brazilian Engagements in African Agriculture," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 1-12.
    6. Carolina Milhorance & Marcel Bursztyn & Eric Sabourin, 2019. "The politics of the internationalisation of Brazil’s ‘Zero Hunger’ instruments," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 11(2), pages 447-460, April.

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