Abstract
This paper is situated in an emerging body on Brazilian development cooperation, looking at the specific case of cooperation concerning agricultural development in Africa. The analysis highlights the discursive side of Brazilian cooperation, where competing narratives about models and purposes construct different versions of reality for reasons related to the political character of cooperation. Discourse is hence an expression of the political. This paper frames Brazil’s agricultural cooperation as a domain of priests, technicians and traders, driven, respectively, by doctrinal, technical fixing and business rationales. This provides an initial frame of reference to distil actors’ narratives about Brazilian cooperation programmes. The paper focuses on two cooperation programmes in Mozambique: ProSAVANA and More Food International. The key for understanding competing narratives on these programmes and how they intermingle and change over time can be found in Brazil’s domestic sphere. The two programmes have been interpreted as an expression of contradictions in Brazil’s agriculture and particularly its dualistic character, typically framed as family farming versus agribusiness. Through the lenses of discourse analysis, this paper offers a critical reading of the interplay between priests, technicians and traders, as shaped by different interests and points of view in cooperation relations.
Highlights
Brazil’s insertion in the realm of international development cooperation is a relatively recent phenomenon and one that has been getting significant attention by researchers and practitioners
This paper focused on Brazil’s agricultural development cooperation in Mozambique
It analysed the politics of Brazilian cooperation policy-making and explored, the role of domestic politics in shaping engagements abroad
Summary
REVISTA NERA – ANO 20, No 38 - Dossiê 2017 - ISSN: 1806-6755 brasileira e, em particular, do seu caráter dual, frequentemente expresso como agricultura familiar versus agronegócio. Tendo como referencial teórico a análise de discurso, o artigo fornece uma leitura crítica do relacionamento entre sacerdotes, técnicos e comerciantes, ou das diferentes motivações presentes nas relações de cooperação. La cooperación agrícola brasileña es un dominio de sacerdotes, técnicos y comerciantes, impulsados, respectivamente, por razones ideológicas, tecnocráticas y comerciales. Este enfoque proporciona un marco inicial para la destilación de las narrativas de los actores sobre los programas de cooperación de Brasil. El artículo se centra en dos programas específicos en Mozambique: ProSAVANA e Mais Alimentos Internacional. Teniendo como referencial teórico el análisis del discurso, el artículo proporciona un análisis crítico de la relación entre sacerdotes, técnicos y comerciantes, o presentes motivaciones diferentes en las relaciones de cooperación. Palabras clave: Cooperación brasileña; ProSAVANA; Mais Alimentos Internacional; Mozambique; análisis del discurso
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