than US$200 million of food aid wheat and unrefined vegetable oils in Mozambique. This research has three objectives: 1) to …

cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, this study investigates whether cotton can be used to spur the intensification of … smallholder food production. First, a conceptual framework linking cotton institutional structures to food crop intensification is …

Cotton is one of the most important smallholder cash crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). How to ensure input supply …, credit recovery and competition is a subject of intense policy debate. This paper examines the performance of cotton sector …. Despite being landlocked, Zambia's cotton sector has achieved better performance in terms of both value of cotton output per …

cash crops including cotton, the proposed creation of a Cotton Board, and the emergence in 2003 of District Council levies … as a point of conflict between local governments and cotton companies. The purpose of the paper is to provide guidance to …

Cotton is an unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. After privatization in late 1994, seed … cotton production rose from 32,000 metric tons (mt) to about 180,000 mt a decade later (three-year averages centered on 1994 …

within the framework of the Cotton Act, facilitated by a non-partisan government role, will be crucial to maintain good … performance. …

1. Zambia has paid among the best nominal seed cotton prices to farmers in SSA since 1995. 2. By a more refined measure … substantially higher than in Mozambique and WCA. However, from 2000-2005, Zambia's pricing performance fell, and exceeded only … Zimbabwe and Mozambique in our sample 3. The recently announced reference price for 2008 of ZKW 1,200/kg of seed cotton was …

export opportunities from production of cotton. 2. Unregulated and poorly coordinated markets for cotton, production inputs … and credit have too often failed to deliver sustainable production finance to farmers for cotton production resulting in a … has been relatively successful in dealing with the input-credit needs of cotton farmers for periods of time but the system …

farmers (and thus of cotton’s ability to reduce poverty) 2. Zambia’s relatively good performance on input credit provision …1. Farm yields are one key indicator of the productivity of a cotton sector, and an important determinant of returns to … higher in Zambia, with good performance on input credit provision, than in Tanzania, where input use and yields are low. 4 …