Hanging by a thread : cotton, globalization, and poverty in Africa / Cotton, globalization, and poverty in Africa edited by William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray. - Athens, Ohio : Uppsala : Ohio University Press ; Nordic Africa Institute, c2008. - xii, 297 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. - Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 9 . - Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 9. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cotton, globalization, and poverty in Africa / Producing poverty : power relations and price formation in the cotton commodity chains of West Africa / Cotton production in Burkina Faso : international rhetoric versus local realities / Mali's cotton conundrum : commodity production and development on the periphery / Decline of Bt cotton in KwaZulu-Natal : technology and institutions / Many paths of cotton sector reform in East and Southeast Africa : lessons from a decade of experience / Cotton production, poverty, and inequality in rurarl Benin : evidence from the 1990s / Rural development is more than commodity production : cotton in the farming system of Kita, Mali / Cotton casualties and cooperatives : reinventing farmer collectives at the expense of rural Malian communities? / Genetically engineered cotton : politics, science, and power in West Africa / Organic cotton in Sub-Saharan Africa : a new development paradigm? / Hanging by a thread : the future of cotton in Africa / William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray -- Thomas J. Bassett -- Leslie C. Gray -- William G. Mosely -- Marnus Gouse, Bhavani Shankar, and Colin Thirtle -- David Tschirley, Colin Poulton, and Duncan Boughton -- Corinne Siaens and Quentin Wodon -- Dolores Koenig -- Scott M. Lacy -- Jim Bingen -- Brian M. Dowd -- Leslie C. Gray and William G. Moseley.

9780896802605 (pbk) 0896802604 (pb : alk. paper)

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Cotton trade--Africa.
Cotton--Economic aspects--Africa.
Poverty--Africa.

HD9087.A2 / H35 2008

AFR 338.1735 Han 2008