Enlarging the donor base: an analysis of the World Food Programme’s reform process and the Brazilian bridge diplomacy

Lima, Thiago; Santana, Jenifer Queila

doi:10.1590/0034-7329202000203

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“…White (2011) and Smith (2011) pointed out several reasons for the prominence of the WFP among the emerging donors, including the relevance of food insecurity on the international scene due to recurrent economic, environmental, and humanitarian crises; the good reputation of the organization, and the legal and operational domestic constraints that led countries to use WFP instruments to carry out their international cooperation. All of them were present in the Brazilian case (Lima & Santana, 2020).…”

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“…Another was the convenience of using WFP's specialized logistics and skills, which contrasted with the Brazilian lack of expertise. 15 A third factor was the interest of the WFP itself in bringing Brazil into its donor base (Fernandes, 2013a;Lima & Santana, 2020). 16 Three of the CGFome's employees commented that if the government had the capacity to pay for international transportation, Brazil would not have attached its humanitarian cooperation too much to the WFP.…”

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Brazil’s Humanitarian Food Cooperation: From an Innovative Policy to the Politics of Traditional Aid

Lima

2020

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy

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Brazil had donated food abroad on previous occasions, but an institutionalized humanitarian food aid policy was something innovative in its history. The original goal was to connect the produce of the small family farmers to an international humanitarian policy. However, in practice, the donations privileged the commodities of the large agribusiness farms. This article explains the political economy that diverted the policy from its original social purpose and made Brazil one of the five biggest donors of food to the World Food Program for a short period of time.

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Brazil’s Humanitarian Food Cooperation: From an Innovative Policy to the Politics of Traditional Aid

Lima

2020

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy

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“…In addition to the articles on this Special Issue that address policy diffusion processes, several studies explore the internationalisation of Brazil's social innovations, either by targeting a specific agenda (Sabourin and Grisa 2018), highlighting the role of policy networks (Esteves, Zoccal and Fonseca 2020), or analysing more deeply the foreign policy interests and the country's ambition in a particular multilateral venue (Lima and Santana 2020). Our contribution seeks to bridge foreign policy decision-making in multilateral venues and domestic politics, highlighting how the ideas underneath this process may impact the internationalisation of the FF policy agenda.…”

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Brazilian Foreign Policy and Family Farming: Internationalisation Processes through the Analysis of ‘Forums and Arenas’

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Milani

2022

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Brazil’s federal government officially defined family farming (FF) as a public policy agenda in 1996; however, since then, Brazil’s foreign policy in the field of agriculture has given priority to the role of agribusiness in the export of commodities and its contribution to the country’s GDP and trade. While questioning the governmental narrative rooted in a dual agricultural structure (wherein FF and agribusiness would both be similarly relevant), this article also highlights the internationalisation processes of FF through the analysis of different forums in Brazilian foreign policy. Our goal is to understand how each of these forums and arenas has contributed to the international acknowledgement of FF as a ‘best practice’, but also to analyse the strengths and sustainability of what we label as the internationalisation resilience of FF, particularly when we consider the severe reflux of FF policies in Brazil since 2016.

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“…The increased number of Brazilian embassies and companies in Africa demonstrated this point (Amanor & Chichava, 2016). Besides, like Lima and Santana (2020) have observed, having accumulated soft power “through diplomacy, international development, and domestic social policies in the realm of food security”, Brazil engaged in humanitarian cooperation and proceeded to work with the World Food Program (WFP), between 2003 and 2016. The humanitarian program sought to support local family farmers while feeding deserving populations of the world (Lima & Santana, 2020).…”

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South–South Cooperation in Agriculture: Impacts of Brazil’s More Food International Program on Post-Land Reform Social Organizations in Zimbabwe

Muchetu

Shonhe

2022

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy

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South–South Cooperation has received significant attention. This article assesses the implications of Brazil’s More Food International on farm-level social organizations in Goromonzi and Mvurwi districts in Zimbabwe. Data was collected using mainly focus group discussions, key-informant interviews, and the application of a questionnaire among 410 farming households. Differentiated implications and outcomes were observed between the two districts. Overall, the Brazilian programs improved access to tractor and irrigation implements. Still, the implements were more suited to the large-scale production systems rather than to those of the small-scale A1 farmers. Furthermore, a top-down approach utilized by the state has adverse consequences. The prerequisite of forming cooperatives before accessing the tractors and irrigation implements disrupted local political and socio-economic organizations already in existence within the two districts. The study concludes that, while farm mechanization is crucial for agricultural production, the exclusion of the farmers during policy conceptualization undermines the success of these programs.

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Enlarging the donor base: an analysis of the World Food Programme’s reform process and the Brazilian bridge diplomacy

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Cited by 7 publications

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Brazil’s Humanitarian Food Cooperation: From an Innovative Policy to the Politics of Traditional Aid

Brazil’s Humanitarian Food Cooperation: From an Innovative Policy to the Politics of Traditional Aid

Brazilian Foreign Policy and Family Farming: Internationalisation Processes through the Analysis of ‘Forums and Arenas’

South–South Cooperation in Agriculture: Impacts of Brazil’s More Food International Program on Post-Land Reform Social Organizations in Zimbabwe

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