Agricultural intensification in West Africa is in its early stages and several hypotheses have been postulated about …

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 …

In 2009, the World Bank published a comparative study of cotton sector reforms, based on detailed case studies carried … out during 2007/08 in nine of Africa’s main cotton producing countries. The purpose of the study was to draw practical … insights from the diversity of experiences in institutional reforms of cotton sectors and to better understand the strengths …

the crude oil market. In the long-run, around 2-7 percent of the variability in grains, oilseeds, and cotton prices can be …

A spatial price equilibrium model of the international cotton sector was used to analyze the impacts of the Port of … Salvador improvements on the Brazilian cotton industry and world cotton trade. The port of Salvador is undergoing relevant … direct ocean shipping lines were found to be important for the cotton exporters in Brazil, especially for the producers in …

This paper examines the impacts of different irrigation scenarios on Uzbekistan's cotton sector and world cotton trade … scenarios relevant to Central Asia's agriculture and simulates their impacts on cotton markets in this region and around the …