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 cap-ture market share from (and cause losses to) non-users of …

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 …

After years of diplomatic efforts and legal procedures to obtain the elimination of rich countries' cotton subsidies …, policy prospects for African cotton producers remain bleak. However, the world price for cotton has doubled in a year and has … undertaken in Sub-Saharan African cotton sectors on producers'supply responsiveness; and outlines what remains to be done to …

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 …

Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton … Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The … authors provide estimates of the potential economic impacts of (1) complete or partial removal of cotton subsidies and import …

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 evaluates to what extent cotton can work as a vehicle …

costs? The randomized allocation of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597 smallholder cotton farming … households in 1,507 clusters helps evaluate this in the context of Zambia's cotton outgrowing industry. But despite large health … impacts on treated households, no impact on cotton deliveries to the agribusiness is detected. With some caveats, the results …

The authors provide estimates of the economic impact of initial adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton and of its … of GM cotton varieties by other developing countries - especially in Sub-Saharan Africa - could provide even larger … remove cotton subsidies and import tariffs globally …