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 capture market share from (and cause losses to) non-users of biotechnology …. By contrast, with a single exception, Africa has not adopted biotechnology and, not coincidentally, its cotton output …

toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper … biotechnology. By contrast, with a single exception, Africa has not adopted biotechnology and, not coincidentally, its cotton output … implications of biotechnology go beyond cotton and Africa. High energy prices have been an important driver of the recent commodity …

While several studies have shown that genetically modified Bt cotton can benefit smallholder farmers economically, the … sustainability of these effects is still unclear and debated controversially between biotechnology proponents and critics. We use … unique panel data of 533 cotton farmers, collected in India between 2002 and 2008, to analyze Bt impacts on cotton yield …