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This compendium showcases the ongoing trends and challenges in South-South cooperation between India and select countries in Africa, for achieving food security and poverty reduction. Scholars and practitioners share diverse perspectives on the role of India's development compact; aid, trade, private sector driven Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs), and concessional Lines of Credit (LOCs) to the agricultural and agro-processing sector in Africa. India- Africa cooperation also underscores that the sharing of knowledge and capabilities- technical and financial, along with North- South partnerships- through trilateral and multilateral mechanisms, can upscale agriculture and agro-processing sectors to centre stage the food security agenda and reduce poverty. Arguments made through the volume critically highlight hegemonic neo-liberal economic policies, structural adjustment programmes, import substitution practices, and the denationalization of food production, and illustrate the need for sustainable and cost effective agro-ecological practices, in the face of ongoing global challenges, such as the climate emergency and degradation of biodiversity and habitats.
The axial questions addressed are; how does cooperation between countries of the Global South- India and Africa - impact intra-South trading, capacity building, and the investment landscape. Scientists, academics, development professionals, government officials, NGOs and international organizations, offer the readers; empirical case studies, policy perspectives, the limitations and challenges, and the way forward in an analytical manner.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: India and Africa: Partnering for Food Security.- Part I. Collaborations for Food Security.- Chapter 2. India-Africa: Is the Cooperation Sustainable? - Chapter 3. Global Climate Diplomacy. - Part II. Sharing Knowledge.- Chapter 4. Benefiting Smallholder Farmers in Africa: The Role of ICRISAT.- Chapter 5. Food Security and Capacity Development: The ILRI Experience.- Chapter 6. Feed Base Ethiopia: The Role of Database in Developing Livestock Feed.- Chapter 7. Developing Value Chains in Cotton through Public - Private Partnerships: The Role of IL & FS.- Chapter 8. Women to Women Cooperation: Learnings from SEWA.- Part III. Private/Public Partnerships.- Chapter 9. Supporting Indian Trade and Investment for Africa: The International Trade Centre Project.- Chapter 10. Maximising Output: Contract Farming by Corredor Pvt. Ltd in Mozambique.- Part IV. Trading in Pulses.- Chapter 11. Africa's Pulse Exports to India.- Chapter 12. Ban on Pigeonpeas from Tanzania and its Impacts.- Chapter 13. Production of Pulses in Tanzania: Opportunities and Challenges.- Part V. Financing Mechanisms.- Chapter 14. EXIM Bank's Support for Food Security and Capacity Building in Africa.- Chapter 15. Lines of Credit and its Impact on the Agricultural Sector in Africa.- Chapter 16. Development Finance: The IBSA Fund and Development Impact Bonds.- Chapter 17. South-South Collaborations in Agriculture: A Concluding Note.
About the author
Renu Modi is Professor and Director at the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai
Meera Venkatachalam is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai
