Faso, Chad, and Mali (the Cotton-4). The report promotes best practices to manage cost and define sales strategies so as to … enhance the contribution of the cotton sector to shared growth and lessen the risk of contingent liabilities borne by the … types of investors needed to improve the competitiveness of the cotton sector in West and Central Africa and ways to design …

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …