This paper analyzes and compares the structure of cotton by-products industries in se-lected countries (Uganda … as feedstocks for biofuels is unlikely to become a new source of growth for the cotton oil market. Third, within the … context of deepening the on-going reform efforts in West and Central African countries, cotton by-products should be taken …

During the past decade, cotton prices remained considerably below other agricultural prices (although they recovered … toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper … keeping cotton prices low, aided these countries to capture market share from (and cause losses to) non-users of biotechnology …

"The Zambian cotton sector went through significant reforms during the 1990s. After a long period of parastatal control …, a process of liberalization in cotton production and marketing began in 1994. These reforms were expected to benefit … the dynamics of the cotton sector and the dynamics of poverty and evaluate to what extent cotton can work as a vehicle for …

places as far afield as Japan, West Africa and Europe. Cotton explores this earlier globalised economy and its transformation … after 1750 as cotton led the way in the industrialisation of Europe. By the early nineteenth century, India, China and the … Ottoman Empire switched from world producers to buyers of European cotton textiles, a position that they retained for over two …