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Africa’s Structural Transformation Challenge and the Role of Agriculture

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the case with FAO, the World Bank and
IFAD, with whom closer cooperation
is being established in countries such
as Mozambique and Cameroon. Other
cooperations are within the BRICS group
(with the establishment of an international
bank) or through China’s implication in
DAC/OECD working groups.

Two last points deserve to be
mentioned here. The first one concerns
the production of knowledge in China on
issues related to agricultural development
and cooperation in Africa. Numerous
Chinese academics are more and more
connected with European and American
research, in a lesser extent with Africa
(the main academic partnership in related
fields is developed with Stellenbosch
University in South Africa). An increasing
porosity can be observed between the
two academic worlds, besides others
through the exchange of students and the
participation in various think-tanks.17
Academics exchange on cooperation
experiences, publish in international
journals and, being themselves strongly
linked to the Chinese authorities,
significant changes with regard to Chinese
Cooperation in Africa can be expected. It
could particularly benefit from a growing
agenda focusing on rural transformation
and how the latter can be a major engine
for food security. Secondly, during the
Addis Ababa conference on financing
development (July 2015), the Chinese
President announced several initiatives
in order to intensify South–South
cooperation, in particular with Africa in
the field of agriculture.

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See Yun Sun (2015); China’s Sustainable Overseas Agricultural Cooperation (CSOAC): An Annotated
Bibliography; Latest News: An Academic Network on China’s Overseas Agricultural Cooperation, N°
12, June 30, 2015; and the research network “Chinese in Africa-Africans in China”.

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