Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Foreword I -- Foreword II -- Acknowledgements -- About the Conference -- Praise for India-Africa Partnerships for Food Security and Capacity Building -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- 1 Introduction: India-Africa-Partnering for Food Security -- The Farming Sector in Africa -- State of Agriculture in Africa -- Countering Poverty Through Job Creation -- Partnering for Food Security Through South-South Cooperation -- About the Compendium -- References -- Part I Collaborations for Food Security -- 2 India and Africa: Is the Cooperation Sustainable? -- Introductory Note -- The State of African Agriculture -- The Agricultural Dimension of Trade Between India and Africa -- Lines of Credit to Support Agriculture -- Investments in Agriculture -- Non-Governmental Capacity Building Initiatives -- Enhancing India-Africa Agricultural Cooperation: Towards a Sustainable Future -- Building Capacity -- Challenges in Implementation -- Trilateral Cooperation -- Challenges and Opportunities in Land -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 India, Africa and Global Climate Diplomacy -- Introduction: Challenges in the Anthropocene -- India, Africa and the Geopolitics of Climate Change -- Convergences -- Divergences -- Indian Initiatives for Combatting Climate Change -- Africa-Specific Initiatives Undertaken by India -- Conclusion: Beyond COP25 -- References -- Part II Sharing Knowledge -- 4 Benefitting Smallholder Farmers in Africa: Role of ICRISAT -- Background -- Development of Crop Varieties for Africa -- Chickpea -- Pigeonpea -- Groundnut -- Sorghum -- Pearl Millet -- Promoting Agri-Entrepreneurship in Africa -- The UniBRAIN Project -- Efforts Under the India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS-II and IAFS-III) -- FPBIC Project -- FTL Project -- Conclusion -- References.

"Since independence India has deployed its soft power in Africa, with educational aid and capacity-building at the heart of its Africa policy. However, following economic liberalisation and in a quest for greater global influence, India's geopolitics have changed. The country's discourse on Africa has shifted from the mantras of post-colonial solidarity and South-South Cooperation, and there is now a growing sense of Indian exceptionalism, as the country reimagines its past and future against the growing influence of the political right. In this book scholars from India, Africa, Europe and North America show how India's soft power has been implemented by the diaspora, government and private sector. Research documents how India's 'aid' has been re-thought in major schemes such as e-global education and health, Gandhi statuary and Covid-19 diplomacy in Africa."

AbstractDevelopment economists have often argued that South–South flows of capital and aid are devoid of the conditionalities and hierarchies that define North–South flows of the same. Maussians and neo‐Maussians maintain that gifting—which allows for the ethos of reciprocity—leads to the formation of more equal international partnerships. This article focusses on India's development diplomacy. We unpack Indian cultural notions of 'gifting', which do not allow for imaginings of reciprocity, and show how 'the gift' has been strategically employed by Indian actors as a tool of state‐making to forge relations of hierarchy and dependence globally.