The cotton sector in Mali is facing major challenges to overcome, with low export prices, technical hurdles, and a … poorly performing state-owned cotton ginner. Some reforms, most notably with regard to the setting of the farmgate … that the production process be modernized and the ginner profoundly reformed if cotton is to play a major role in poverty …

excessive and inefficient irrigation practices. In this paper, we survey 619 cotton producers in the region and analyse their …

the Malian cotton sector starting with the CFDT contract following the country‘s Independence in 1960; the nationalization … of the cotton gin company, CMDT, in 1974; the completion of a vertically integrated market structure from the mid-1980s …. Commons’ economic theory, institutional changes in the Malian cotton sector have led to both intended and unintended …

The impact of the United States' and the European Union's subsidies on world cotton price has been an important subject … detailing the Malian cotton sector. The results show a positive impact on GDP as well as on households and government incomes …

(english) In Mali, the situation of cotton growing households has traditionally been considered as more favorable than … that of food crop producers. However, official statistics on poverty suggest that the cotton growing region of Sikasso is … among the poorest regions of the country and that cotton producers are on average poorer than all other farmers. This …

the Malian cotton sector, starting with Mali's independence in 1960 to the ongoing market-oriented reforms in the 2000s …. In accordance with Commons's economic theory, institutional changes in the Malian cotton sector have led to both intended … related to input access, discordance between farmers and their union leader representatives, unreasonable seed cotton prices …

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 …

This paper examines the role of institutional environments on cotton farmer technical efficiency scores in Benin …, Burkina Faso, and Mali using a stochastic frontier production approach. First, the key institutional changes that have …-sectional data collected by the Cotton Sector Reform Project of the Africa, Power, and Politics Programme in 2009. Results from a one …

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

travers le cas la filière coton au Mali, qui concerne près du quart de la population et un peu moins de 10 % du PIB, il est …