How can Mali and the donor community enhance competitiveness of the Malian cotton sector and realise its growth … potential? Mali is already promoting the abolition of cotton export subsidies in Northern nations in the current WTO Doha Round …. To enhance the cotton sector’s competitiveness and growth, strengthening cotton farmers’ skills, developing …

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 …

Following an 8-year long dispute over cotton subsidies, Brazil and the United States signed a Memorandum of … Understanding on April 21, 2010, effectively paving the way for settling the dispute. This paper argues that cotton subsidies are …, political will. Chief among them is the persistent divergence between cotton prices and the prices of other agricultural …

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 …