Beyond Official Development Assistance : Chinese Development Cooperation and African Agriculture

Jiang, Lu

ISBN 10: 9813295090 / ISBN 13: 9789813295094

Published by Palgrave Macmillan 2020-09, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Official Development Assistance : Chinese Development Cooperation and African Agriculture
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2020-09
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9813295090
• ISBN 13: 9789813295094
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book investigates China’s contemporary development cooperation mentality and modality through the case of its agricultural engagement with Africa. It identifies three models, namely traditional agro-aid, innovative agro-aid and agribusiness models, of Chinese current agro-development cooperation with Africa, and unpacks the different models by tracing their historical origins and examining the actual practice based on project-level fieldwork conducted in Mozambique and South Africa. The book provides a preliminary and qualitative evaluation of China’s current agro-development cooperation with Africa, and explains the ‘implementation gaps’ as observed on the ground adopting a public policy approach. It also compares the Chinese way of development cooperation with that of the traditional donors (particularly the OECD-DAC members), and calls for a broadening understanding for international development cooperation that can allow win-win ideology and embrace diversified cooperation forms beyond the official development assistance (ODA).

About the Author

Lu Jiang is a research fellow of the International Development Cooperation Academy based at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, and a research associate with Fudan Development Institute in Shanghai. She gained her PhD degree in International Relations at London School of Economics and Political Science.