Brazil’s South-South Cooperation and Development: The Case of a Rural Development Programme in Mozambique

The present work poses the following research question: to what extent does Brazil present a new model of development within its South-South cooperation approach? Throughout the present analysis intend to examine how Brazil proposes a new concept of development within its international development cooperation, and to what extent such new conceptualization succeeds in breaking from mainstream, dominant notions of development. In order to operationalize such interrogations, the analysis starts from the following questions: how is Brazil’s South-South cooperation discursively presented? How is Brazil’s South-South cooperation practically implemented? In order to answer these questions, this research undertook an exploratory research based on an in-depth single case analysis. In doing so, analysed the discourses and practices of the ProSAVANA programme, Brazil’s South-South cooperation most emblematic and also most controversial programme.