The
distrust towards the Chinese presence in the African agriculture sector
concerns in particular " the massive cornering of lands, to feed China
", the slowness of the model of cooperation, an orchestration centralized
by the government, etc. Tech Expert invites the African governments to take
advantage of the Chinese experience in agricultural material.
Investment of China in
African agri-business
The
interventions of the Chinese actors in the farming sector do not risk blocking
the agri-business development of the continent. The land acquisitions are not
as well important as we say it, the agricultural projects serve first and
foremost the food needs in countries or regions (rice, truck farming, sugar,
etc.) and have not for object to be exported to satisfy the food needs for
China. There is within the Chinese administration a will to set up sectors of
transformation of farm produces, to create income locally: it's like that some
sugar, some cotton, some leather etc.
Both development can be
possible
We are at a
moment the history where the crossed looks are necessary, even essential. The
experience of development of China can contribute to feed a model of
cooperation with Africa, but this model also has to feed on lessons past and
accumulated by the other investors as well as the lessons accumulated by the
African decision-makers that they are in the Central Administrations or
NGO(NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION), or begun. Just like China has NO solution
to its model of agricultural development in China because of still very low
weak standards of living in countryside and of politics which have still
excluded many farmers, Africa also has teachings to be given in China provided
that this one agrees to analyze the trajectories of each of the countries.
In brief, a
politics based on the improvement of the conditions of the agri-business is
possible. In Africa, since the structural adjustments, agricultural policies underwent
a severe lapel. If the State was strongly slandered in its management of big
sectors as the cotton, the coffee, the cocoa in the eighties and ninety, the
liberalization did not give all the expected results.
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