Brazilian policies and strategies for rural territorial development in Mozambique: South-South cooperation and the case of ProSAVANA and PAA

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Clements, Elizabeth Alice [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Geografia; Cooperativismo; Desenvolvimento rural - Brasil; Desenvolvimento rural - Moçambique; Geography
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/131925; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/01-12-2015/000855211.pdf

This thesis analyzes Brazil's present role in South-South development cooperation in Africa, focusing on the implementation and impact of Brazilian policies for rural territorial development in Mozambique. Specifically, two different programs for agricultural development-ProSAVANA and PAA Africa-are examined. ProSAVANA is an ongoing trilateral program run by the governments of Brazil, Japan and Mozambique that aims to modernize agriculture in three provinces in Northern Mozambique. PAA Africa is a multilateral partnered pilot-project that promotes local food-purchasing and school-feeding programs in Tete province, financed by governments of Brazil and the United Kingdom and executed by the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP). The strategies for rural territorial development that each of the programs respectively entails, their influence on national policymaking, the impacts and implications on peasant livelihoods...