Análise do PROJETO COTTON-4 + TOGO enquanto instrumento da territorialização do projeto geopolítico brasileiro no contexto da cooperação Sul-Sul

Abstract

International Cooperation for Development (ICD) consists of the construction of aid agreements in certain sectors that aim at the transfer of technologies (social, technical, scientific or operational). It is increasingly perceived the use of this mode of cooperation as a strategy of projection of hegemonies by countries. In the context of the Brazilian foreign policy adopted in recent years (2003-2010), technical cooperation has gained relevance, in particular, for the investments made in the African continent, producing geographies from the cooperative dynamics. Brazil, as a donor within cooperation with Africa, uses the discourse of South-South cooperation relations to oppose the hegemonic and imperialist character of North-South cooperation. To evaluate the possible discrepancies between discourse and practice amidst the territorialization of Brazil's technical, economic and political potential for cooperation with Africa, we used as an analytical framework the Cotton-4 + Togo, a structuring project for agricultural technical cooperation that works as an example of territorializing cooperation from Brazil to Africa, due to the financial contribution, the geopolitical context and the mobilization of technique that includes itself