Agriculture remains a priority sector in China-Africa agricultural cooperation, however, modalities, discourses, and practices have radically changed since the mid-1950s. This study investigates the consolidation of China-Africa agricultural cooperation as representative of South-South cooperation (SSC). The rise of BRICS countries, and particularly of China-in-Africa is key in discussing the transformations in the global development regime. This thesis consists of four articles and critical development studies and geography provides the overall framework. First, this dissertation focuses on examining the challenges of China-Africa relations, under the framework of SSC, considering China’s increasing geoeconomic and geostrategic interests in the continent. The second article explores the challenges and limitations of the Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centers (ATDCs) as of current flagship projects of China-Africa agricultural cooperation. The third case study article examines the ATDC in Tanzania and China-Tanzania relations, with a specific focus on the diversification of African dependency. The material for the case study was collected through qualitative methodologies, and fieldwork in China during May-July 2019, and in Tanzania in March 2020. The fourth article concludes the thesis with an exploration of changes in China’s official discourse on Sino-African agricultural cooperation at the Forum on China-Africa cooperation between the 2000s and 2018. Particularly, the article questions how China’s discourses have evolved in a time of economic, political, and socio-ecological crises exacerbated by the spread of Covid-19. The dissertation contributes to the current academic debate on the ‘rise of the South’ and China particularly in re-articulating the global development regime traditionally dominated by the West and the United States hegemony. Particularly, this study contributes with the case of China-Africa agricultural cooperation in discussing the convergence and co-optation of practices and political framings between Northern and Southern partners.
L’agricoltura rimane un settore prioritario nella cooperazione agricola Cina-Africa; le modalità, la retorica e le pratiche che intercorrono nel rapporto tra i due Paesi invece sono radicalmente cambiate dalla metà degli anni Cinquanta. La ricerca approfondisce il consolidamento della cooperazione agricola Cina-Africa come rappresentativa della cooperazione Sud-Sud. L’ascesa dei paesi BRICS e in particolare della Cina-in-Africa rappresenta la chiave per discutere le trasformazioni in atto nell’architettura dello sviluppo globale. Questa indagine si concentra in quattro articoli e gli studi sullo sviluppo e sulla geografia critica forniscono un quadro teorico generale. Il primo articolo esamina le sfide delle relazioni tra Cina e Africa, sotto il quadro della cooperazione Sud-Sud, considerando i crescenti interessi geoeconomici e geostrategici della Cina nei paesi africani. Il secondo articolo esplora le sfide e i limiti degli Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centers (ATDCs) come progetti faro della cooperazione agricola Cina-Africa. Il terzo articola esamina l’ATDC in Tanzania e le relazioni Cina-Tanzania con particolare attenzione alla diversificazione della dipendenza africana. I materiali per il caso di studio sono stati raccolti attraverso l’utilizzo di metodologie qualitative e di un periodo di studio svolto in Cina tra marzo e luglio, nel 2019 e il successivo in Tanzania, nel marzo del 2020. Il quarto articolo conclude la tesi con un’analisi dei cambiamenti nei discorsi officiali della Cina sulla cooperazione agricola Cina-Africa durante il Forum sulla cooperazione Cina-Africa (FOCAC) dal 2000 al 2018. In particolare, questa parte esamina come il discorso officiale della Cina si sia evoluto in un periodo di molteplici crisi socio-ecologiche, politiche ed economiche inasprite dalla diffusione del Covid-19. Questa tesi contribuisce ai dibattiti accademici sul ruolo del Sud e in particolare della Cina nel riarticolare il regime di sviluppo globale tradizionalmente dominato dall’Occidente e dall'egemonia statunitense. In particolare, questo studio contribuisce con il caso della cooperazione agricola Cina-Africa nel discutere la convergenza e la cooptazione di pratiche tra gli attori del Nord e del Sud.
La cooperazione agricola Cina-Africa in divenire: tra vecchi modelli e nuove narrazioni
PEPA, MARIASOLE
2022
Abstract
Agriculture remains a priority sector in China-Africa agricultural cooperation, however, modalities, discourses, and practices have radically changed since the mid-1950s. This study investigates the consolidation of China-Africa agricultural cooperation as representative of South-South cooperation (SSC). The rise of BRICS countries, and particularly of China-in-Africa is key in discussing the transformations in the global development regime. This thesis consists of four articles and critical development studies and geography provides the overall framework. First, this dissertation focuses on examining the challenges of China-Africa relations, under the framework of SSC, considering China’s increasing geoeconomic and geostrategic interests in the continent. The second article explores the challenges and limitations of the Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centers (ATDCs) as of current flagship projects of China-Africa agricultural cooperation. The third case study article examines the ATDC in Tanzania and China-Tanzania relations, with a specific focus on the diversification of African dependency. The material for the case study was collected through qualitative methodologies, and fieldwork in China during May-July 2019, and in Tanzania in March 2020. The fourth article concludes the thesis with an exploration of changes in China’s official discourse on Sino-African agricultural cooperation at the Forum on China-Africa cooperation between the 2000s and 2018. Particularly, the article questions how China’s discourses have evolved in a time of economic, political, and socio-ecological crises exacerbated by the spread of Covid-19. The dissertation contributes to the current academic debate on the ‘rise of the South’ and China particularly in re-articulating the global development regime traditionally dominated by the West and the United States hegemony. Particularly, this study contributes with the case of China-Africa agricultural cooperation in discussing the convergence and co-optation of practices and political framings between Northern and Southern partners.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/97074
URN:NBN:IT:UNIPD-97074