Paper short abstract:

This paper examines two interlinked projects on China agricultural development and poverty reduction experiences sharing with Tanzania, and presents a new paradigm of South-South Cooperation with features of a multiple-way learning process based on peer-to-peer sharing relationship.

Paper long abstract:

The new model of South-South Cooperation (SSC) differs fundamentally from the traditional paradigm in its modality and nature. Recently the southern countries including China have their own experiences and resources after several decades of development efforts to promote an innovative international development cooperation relationship in the new era. This paper takes two projects by China Agricultural University in Tanzania as a case to examine its origins, contents, progress, as well as its outcomes and impacts. The key elements and features of SSC are then summarized based on the empirical data. The case indicates SSC has been reshaping the relationship between China and the world. It entails the new development knowledge, which not only originates from China's own development experiences, but also underpinned by China's knowledge on the social, economic and cultural practices of the other country. The new development knowledge is produced during the interaction process between China and the other part of the world. This case shows SSC is a multiple-way learning process based on peer-to-peer sharing relationship and following the local development priority. The knowledge in the sharing has been generated in the practices, rather than through purely theoretical debates. The key of the novel SSC is the agency of the local partners in the development process.