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Martyrdom of the Cerrado: An Agri-Food Territory in Need of Justice
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-24)The Cerrado is a natural biome occupying 25 per cent of Brazil’s surface. Compared to the Amazon, it is relatively unknown to international audiences, yet it is currently the world’s largest agricultural frontier. Intensive ... -
Interrogating the Binary in Brazil’s Agricultural Cooperation for Development
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Brazil’s Tropical Solutions for Africa: Tractors, Matracas and the Politics of ‘Appropriate Technology'
(Springer Link, 2016-06-21)This article focusses on mechanical farming technology sponsored by Brazil’s South-South cooperation in Africa. Tractors and matracas are taken as symbols of different agricultural development pathways promoted by Brazilian ... -
Embrapa and the Construction of Scientific Heritage in Brazilian Agriculture: Sowing Memory
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020-11-01)The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa, is well renowned for incorporating the Cerrado into Braziltry’s modern agriculture through its discoveries of how to improve infertile soils and to develop soybean ... -
South-South Relations in African Agriculture: Hybrid Modalities of Cooperation and Development Perspectives from Brazil and China
(Routledge, 2019)South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means of ‘sharing the burden’ ... -
Learning from Brazil's Food and Nutrition Security Policies
(Food Foundation / IDS, 2018-02)This paper provides an overview of the findings of a UK-Brazil learning exchange, which took place between British and Brazilian policy actors working in food and nutrition who were interested in learning from each other’s ... -
Brazil's Policies to Guarantee Food Rights
(Food Fouindation / IDS, 2017-07)In the last two decades, Brazil has worked hard to tackle deep-rooted food and nutrition insecurity through a range of social policies and programmes. Between 1990 and 2015, the percentage of the population suffering from ... -
Brazil's Food and Nutritional Governance Plan
(Food Foundation / IDS, 2017-07)This briefing pack provides a snapshot of Brazil’s national framework for food and nutritional security policy, and showcases a number of specific programmes aimed at improving nutritional outcomes, including school meals, ... -
Supporting 'Autonomy and Resistance' : the Brazil-Mozambique-South Africa native seed bank project
(Institute of Development Studies, 2014-04)This case study explores an innovative multi-stakeholder project led civil society in three countries: Brazil, Mozambique and South Africa. The “community native seeds banks in family farming areas” knowledge-sharing ... -
Beyond ‘family farming versus agribusiness’ dualism: unpacking the complexity of Brazil’s agricultural model
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016-11)Agriculture has played a hugely important role in the recent history of Brazil’s economy. The country had a food production deficit until as late as the 1970s, but since the early twenty-first century has been one of the ... -
Brazil and China in Mozambican Agriculture: Emerging Insights from the Field
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)Mozambique, a country undergoing rapid transformations driven by the recent discovery of mineral resources, is one of the top destinations for Chinese and Brazilian cooperation and investment in Africa. This article provides ... -
Brazil–Africa Agricultural Cooperation Encounters: Drivers, Narratives and Imaginaries of Africa and Development
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)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 ... -
Rising Powers and Rice in Ghana: China, Brazil and African agricultural development
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-07-01)This paper examines the nature of Chinese and Brazilian investments in agricultural development by focusing on the irrigated rice sector in Ghana. It examines this through a historic perspective that traces policy towards ... -
New Development Encounters: China and Brazil in African Agriculture
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013-07-03)There is currently much talk of the role of the ‘rising powers’ in Africa, and whether their engagements represent a ‘new paradigm’ in development cooperation. This article introduces this IDS Bulletin and examines Brazilian ... -
How Brazil’s Agrarian Dynamics Shape Development Cooperation in Africa
(Wiley, 2013)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 ... -
Reviving Zimbabwe’s Agriculture: The Role of China and Brazil
(Wiley, 2013)From 2000, after Zimbabwe embarked on a major land reform programme, the country was isolated economically and diplomatically by the Western countries. Agricultural financing dried up, and traditional Western donors only ... -
Expanding Agribusiness: China and Brazil in Ghanaian Agriculture
(Wiley, 2013)This article examines the extent, framing and structure of Chinese and Brazilian investments in Ghana. It outlines the changing political economy of the agrarian sector, in the context of market liberalisation and the rise ... -
Negotiating New Relationships: How the Ethiopian State is Involving China and Brazil in Agriculture and Rural Development
(Wiley, 2013)This article provides an overview of Brazilian and Chinese agricultural development cooperation activities in Ethiopia. In the context of a highly aid-dependent country, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has developed an ...
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