Lídia Cabral is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, UK. She is a social scientist with 20 years of experience in international development, working on the politics of aid, South-South relations and agrifood public policy. Recent research focuses on Brazil’s engagement with international development and cooperation initiatives in Africa. Combining political economy and discourse theory, it explores how domestic agrarian politics have shaped cooperation practices and technology transfers abroad. She is currently leading research on the Green Revolution in Brazil, China and India, examining how South-South technology exchanges are framed around epic narratives about the past and their celebration of science of modernity.
Kojo Amanor is a professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. His main research interests are in the land question, smallholder agriculture, agribusiness food chains, agribusiness linkages with communities, capital accumulation in agribusiness, forestry policy, environment, south-south cooperation, and long-term patterns of ecological change in smallholder agriculture. His work combines a focus on changing patterns of global accumulation in agribusiness with processes of social differentiation within communities and struggles over resources.