时间：2012年4月16日（周一）上午10：00-11：30
地点：8797威尼斯老品牌303室
主讲人：赵永军（格罗宁根大学副教授）
题目：“China-Africa development cooperation: what is next?”
内容提要：
As an emerging development player, China’s foray into Africa’s development has met with both positive and negative accounts of its development approach and practice – a challenging area of study. Current research lacks analytical perspectives on the linkages between Chinese aid and investments in Africa and the impacts on the livelihoods and natural resource use of African smallholders. Further research is needed for an enhanced understanding of the political economy of China-Africa development cooperation and their nuanced ways of interactions.
In exploring these contextual issues with a focus on the agricultural sector, this presentation discusses the contentious issues surrounding the economic development model in both China and Africa. It shows how land tenure reform, governance and rural-urban development are critically linked and crucial for more inclusive agricultural development. It demonstrates how relevant China’s own development experiences are to the African context and the repercussions for bilateral cooperation. It attempts to contribute to the wider theoretical debates on agrarian reform in the international context as crucial to addressing the challenges for China’s role in African agriculture in delivering more effective development outcomes.
主讲人介绍：
Dr. Yongjun Zhao is assistant professor of resource governance, sustainable society and globalization studies and programme coordinator in the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research interests include the social and institutional dimensions of natural resource management concerning land tenure reform, rural governance, food security and rural development in China and Africa, and China’s engagement with Africa on agricultural and sustainable development issues. He is partly coordinating the International Land Tenure and Administration, a network of researchers pursing research collaboration in land-related multi-disciplinary thematic issues. He is also leading a research project focusing on farmland acquisition and governance in China issues. He contributes to the teaching of development studies related courses in different faculties and at other universities.
His forthcoming book China’s Disappearing Countryside: Land Tenure Alternatives, Development and Governance will be published by Ashgate in 2012. He has published widely in internationally peer reviewed journals, books and other scientific publications. He gained his PhD in International Development Studies at the University of Groningen, and his Bachelors, Bachelors (Hons) and Master’s degrees in South Africa. He was the governance adviser with the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) China. And he also worked in the NGO and business sectors in China. Relevant links: www.rug.nl/staff/yongjun.zhao/index, www.langple.net, Contact: yongjun.zhao@rug.nl .
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