کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
988290 1481137 2016 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Brazil’s Agricultural Politics in Africa: More Food International and the Disputed Meanings of “Family Farming”
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
سیاست کشاورزی برزیل در آفریقا: معانی بیشتر بین المللی مواد غذایی و مورد اختلاف "کشاورزی خانواده"
کلمات کلیدی
کشاورزی خانوادگی؛ همکاری برزیل؛ آفریقا؛ سخن
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Brazil’s domestic politics matter in understanding the practice of MFI abroad.
• The multiple meanings of family farming found in Brazil are reproduced by MFI.
• Brazil’s business and diplomatic imperatives also matter in understanding MFI.
• MFI’s complex politics confront other political circumstances in African countries.
• Agricultural cooperation is a battlefield between competing development narratives.

SummaryBrazil’s influence in agricultural development in Africa has become noticeable in recent years. South–South cooperation is one of the instruments for engagement, and affinities between Brazil and African countries are invoked to justify the transfer of technology and public policies. In this article, we take the case of one of Brazil’s development cooperation programs, More Food International (MFI), to illustrate why policy concepts and ideas that emerge in particular settings, such as family farming in Brazil, do not travel easily across space and socio-political realities. Taking a discourse-analytical perspective, we consider actors’ narratives of family farming and the MFI program, and how these narratives navigate between Brazil and three African countries – Ghana, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. We find that in Brazil, family farming has multiple meanings that expose contrasting visions of agricultural development as determined by history, geography and class-based power struggles. These multiple meanings are reflected in the disparate ways MFI is portrayed and practiced by Brazilian actors who emphasize commercial opportunity, political advocacy, or technological modernization. We also find that African countries adopt their own interpretations of family farming and MFI, and that these are more attuned with mercantilist and modernization perspectives, and less mindful of Brazil’s domestic political struggles. This has prompted a reaction from those on the Brazilian side fighting for an alternative agricultural development trajectory. The significance of this reaction is yet to be determined.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: World Development - Volume 81, May 2016, Pages 47–60
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