| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/08/29, 8:24 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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China and Brazil have identified agriculture as central to their development efforts in Africa, confident in the
belief that they can make valuable contributions based on their own agricultural success.
China trumpets its ability to feed 20% of the world's population on roughly 10% of the world's arable land,
while Brazil can boast of agribusiness-led commercial production of soya bean and ethanol as well as its promotion of smaller-scale farming.
Last month, José Graziano da Silva, the director general of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, stressed the importance of south-south co-operation in advancing agricultural development in developing countries.
"It is time for Latin America to increase its contribution to African development," Graziano told African and Argentinian agriculture ministers in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Agricultural experts from China offer tips on rice planting to farmers in Dakar, Senegal. Photograph: Zheng Zheng/Xinhua
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