"Cotton, textiles, and apparel are critical agricultural and industrial sectors in India. This study provides … challenges and opportunities the sectors face. More than four million farm households produce cotton in India, and about one … of Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton—domestic prices dropped sharply in the late 1990s, in parallel to world cotton …

"Cotton, textiles, and apparel are critical agricultural and industrial sectors in Pakistan. This study provides … the poverty line, grow cotton. Export controls and taxes kept cotton prices below international levels until the mid-1990s … greater role for the private sector. Pakistani farmers have not formally adopted genetically modified Bt cotton but there is …

This paper explores gender differences in cotton cultivation and looks into the perceptions and experiences of women … to listen to women and men farmers' perceptions and insights. The project was conducted in the main cotton …

Successes in African Agriculture investigates how to reverse this decline. Instead of cataloging failures, as many past …, the farming of maize in East and Southern Africa, cassava across the middle belt of Africa, cotton in West Africa …

. Next, we analyze countrylevel, historical contexts where export crops, such as coffee and cotton, have been implicated in …

production and farmers' income, Bt cotton, genetically-modified, insect-resistant cotton, remains highly controversial in India …, we provide a comprehensive review of evidence on Bt cotton and farmer suicides, taking into account information from … may have with the use of Bt cotton. We first show that there is no evidence in available data of a “resurgence” of farmer …

Among the four largest cotton-producing countries, only Pakistan had not commercially adopted Bt cotton by 2010 …. However, the cultivation of first-generation (Cry1Ac) Bt cotton, unapproved and unregulated, increased rapidly after 2005 … 206 growers in 16 villages in two cotton-growing districts, Baha-walpur and Mirpur Khas. The results indicate a positive …