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    Blurring the Lines between Aid and Business in the Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre in Zimbabwe

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    2015-08-01
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    Lixia, Tang
    Yan, Lu
    Wenjie, Zhao
    Mukwereza, Langton
    Xiaoyun, Li
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    In recent years, tremendous attention has been given to China’s burgeoning agricultural engagements in Africa. Due to limited access to these engagements, most discussions have focused on macro-level discourse analysis as well as political and economic analysis on its impacts. Little research of an anthropological nature has been undertaken at the micro-level operation of ongoing projects, taking note of the nature of interactions between the donors and local counterpart staff within a given cultural setting. This article focuses on a Chinese- Zimbabwe Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre (ATDC) to provide insights into the daily activities, interactions and cultural encounters with locals. Ethnographic methodologies are used to examine the Chinese and Africans’ activities, ideas and dialogues at the Demonstration Centre to present through empirical observations how China’s macro strategy is implemented in actual practices of staff and local partners at the ATDC in Zimbabwe.
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    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/7097
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    Lixia, T. et al., (2015) Blurring the Lines between Aid and Business in the Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre in Zimbabwe, FAC Working Paper 129, Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium
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    FAC Working Paper;129
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