ABSTRACT

This chapter provides the examination of the adoption process of Brazil's rural policy instruments in Mozambique. It analyses the purchase from Africa for Africans (PAA) Africa programme and the school feeding programme. PAA Africa also focused on the objectives of promoting family farming through specific public policies. The integration with the agricultural sector has been possible in PAA Africa, but through food and agriculture's organization technical assistance. The chapter focuses on the assumption that the adoption of foreign initiatives takes place in different locales and scales based upon the politics of interaction between foreign, national, and local actors. It shows that how local politico-economic conditions may influence the reception of foreign policy instruments at the territorial level. Policy instruments of support for 'a modern and productive family farming' have been certified and decontextualised from the Brazilian setting by development cooperation agents.