Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution

282 Pages·1998·14.64 MB·English

by  Deborah Bräutigam (auth.)

Chinese Aid and African
Development
Exporting Green Revolution
Deborah Bräutigam
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Chinese Aid and
African Development
Exporting Green Revolution
Deborah Brautigam
School of International Service
American University
Washington, DC
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Contents
List of Tables, Figures and Maps viii
List ofA bbreviations ix
Preface xi
Introduction
2 Development and Foreign Aid: Theory and Practice 13
3 Chinese Aid in Africa 33
4 The State and Agriculture in West Africa 61
5 China's Green Revolution: Technology in West Africa 101
6 Project Governance: Implementation and Institutions 139
7 Exporting Ideology: Chinese Domestic Politics and China's
African Aid 17 5
8 Conclusion 196
Appendix: Chinese Foreign Aid in West Africa -Country Overviews 211
Notes 217
Bibliography 251
Index 263
vii
List of Tables, Figures and
Maps
Tables
3.1 Chinese Aid to Africa in Comparative Perspective, 1960-89 44
3.2 Chinese Aid to Africa, 1957-96 45
4.1 Rice Production and Imports for The Gambia, Liberia and
Sierra Leone, 1970-94 65
4.2 Chinese Agrotechnical Stations in Sierra Leone 82
Figures
3.1 Total Sino-African trade, 1965-94 54
3.2 Sino-African Trade, 1965-94, as a Percentage of Total
African Trade 54
Maps
4.1 China's Kpatawee Project in Liberia 71
4.2 Chinese Agrotechnical Stations in Sierra Leone 83
4.3 Village Level Irrigation Developed by Chinese in The Gambia 98
viii
List of Abbreviations
ACRE Adaptive Crop Research and Extension (Sierra Leone)
ADP Agricultural Development Project (in The Gambia, a
World Bank project)
AGRICON China International Cooperation Company for Agriculture,
Livestock and Fisheries
AO Agricultural Officer
APC Agricultural Producers' Cooperative (China)
APC All People's Congress (Sierra Leone)
CARl Central Agricultural Research Institute
CCA Chen-Chu-Ai (Zhen-Zhu-Ai), a Chinese rice variety
CDC Colonial Development Corporation (British)
COMPLANT Complete Plarit Export Corporation (China)
COPA T Committee of Principals for Agricultural Training
(Sierra Leone)
DOA Department of Agriculture (The Gambia)
EIADP Eastern Area Integrated Agricultural Development
Project (The World Bank)
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
FBIS-AFR Foreign Broadcast Information Service - Africa Daily
Report
GOP Gross Domestic Product
GPMB Gambia Produce Marketing Board
IADP Integrated Agricultural Development Projects
(Sierra Leone)
IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
IRRI International Rice Research Institute
ISNAR International Service for National Agricultural Research
LIRICO Liberian Rice Corporation
LPMC Liberia Produce Marketing Corporation
MAF Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Sierra Leone)
MANR Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources
(Sierra Leone)
MEPID Ministry of Economic Planning, Industry, and
Development (The Gambia)
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