Beyond Official Development Assistance: Chinese Development Cooperation and African Agriculture

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. Th...