This paper examines the heavily supported Swiss food and agriculture sector. It reviews some of the key features and …

of cotton into China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews first the possible arguments for raising the tariff … redistributing from those involved in the production of textiles and clothing to the producers of cotton. The core analysis of the … statistics designed to assess the export status of cotton, whether in raw or processed form. Findings – The paper reviews the …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the main features of world cotton market by focusing on the role of China, and … analysing the effect of predetermined macroeconomic variables on Chinese cotton market. First, a global overview of cotton … follow the paper analyses what factors and to which extent they may have affected Chinese cotton production, consumption and …

A computable general equilibrium model is applied to evaluate the opportunity costs of not adopting Bt cotton, a … genetically-modified (GM) insect resistant cotton, in Benin, Burkina- Faso, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, and Uganda when it is … shocks in the cotton and oilseed sectors of all adopting regions. Assuming a 50% adoption rate, the opportunity cost of not …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the main features of world cotton market by focusing on the role of China, and … analyzing the effect of predetermined macroeconomic variables on Chinese cotton market. First, a global overview of cotton … follow the paper analyses what factors and to which extent they may have affected Chinese cotton production, consumption and …

went on to find that subsidies to cotton producers exceeded the U.S. reduction commitment in the Agreement on Agriculture … the Doha Development Round. The Cotton report reclassifies from the green box (permitted subsidies) to the amber box …, even in the absence of U.S. cotton policy, world cotton prices may be distorted from widespread use of subsidies by other …

Although the key issue in the WTO negotiations on agriculture is subsidies reduction, the EU and USA still account more … than 85% of the world agriculture subsidies. An important policy question confronting developing countries is whether the … countries from 1995 to 2005, the results of cointegration and ECM indicate that 1% reduction in the subsidies imposed by the EU …

factors. Data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) for the years 2005 …

We study a Hotelling’s duopoly in world cotton market to examine the effects of Precision Agriculture’s (PA) adoption … producers should be well advised to adopt PA to offer “environmental quality” cotton whereas CWA producers have a natural … comparative advantage that allows them to offer a “product quality” cotton. We also argue that if the USA subsidizes PA in order …