A computable general equilibrium model is applied to evaluate the opportunity costs of not adopting Bt cotton, a … genetically-modified (GM) insect resistant cotton, in Benin, Burkina- Faso, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, and Uganda when it is … shocks in the cotton and oilseed sectors of all adopting regions. Assuming a 50% adoption rate, the opportunity cost of not …

Cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) were run by monopolistic para-statal organisms for a long time. They … deregulation, cotton development in SSA could be reviewed and their current restructuring appraised according to economics of … networks models.This paper stresses that cotton sectors in SSA could be considered as service networks. They have a 3-layer …

Cotton production in the Francophone African Countries (FACs) derives exclusively from smallholders whose holding size … is less than 5 ha on average. From the 1990s, the FACs are globally ranking third to second in exporting cotton to the …

China is ranking first in cotton production for more than 20 years. The adoption of GM cotton, since 1997, through the …, all cotton sector stakeholders do recognize that there is a big issue of excessive competition from a great number of … cotton variety and seed market development of the last twenty years by focussing on the interaction between State …

The sustainability of Bt-cotton in China, at least along Yellow River Valley, has been questioned, so this paper … examines its effectiveness along Yangtze River Valley, where Bt-cotton is also widely sown, to determine what might be the … chemical control practices against cotton pests.All varieties declared to be Bt-cotton were confirmed to have the Bt-gene, the …

The bulk of the South African cotton crop is produced by large scale commercial farmers. Therefore it might be … misleading to present South Africa's impressive Genetically Modified Cotton (GMC) adoption figures as evidence of successful GMC … use by smallholder farmers. The total South African cotton area and number of farmers decreased drastically since the …

-differentiated policies in the dissemination of the GMOs. While the release of GMOs is authorized notably for cotton in 1998, it is still … prohibited for food crops. In spite of the positive outcomes on cotton, at least in the short run, and of the persisting decrease …

and materials to help assess the performance of the cotton commodity sectors of different countries and to assist the …

sample period is split in two: before and after the MFI implemented France's regulatory EUR 10,000 loan ceiling. In the first …