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The international development landscape has been moving toward a partnership featuring equality and mutual benefits with the rise of the Global South. "Knowledge sharing" starts to center the new narratives on South-South Cooperation with the argument that southern countries share similar historical experiences, closer development phases and common development challenges. However, what constitutes development knowledge and how this knowledge influencing the development practices has yet been articulated and expounded. In this article, development knowledge is defined as "knowledge for development" and "knowledge in development". Based on field observations on three Chinese agricultural investment projects in Mozambique, Tanzania and Madagascar since 2013, the paper tried to answer the following questions: 1) What happens on the ground when different development knowledge encounters in China-Africa cooperation? 2) What influences the effective knowledge transfer between Chinese and African Stakeholders? 3) How do these developing knowledge encounters affect the outcomes of China-Africa agricultural cooperation? The study found that encounters in technical, institutional and cultural knowledge between China and African implementers affects the efficiency and effectiveness of China-Africa cooperation projects in Africa. Post-colonial perspectives on hybridity, imitation and ambiguity may provide a plausible explanation for this interface.