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Title:

Hanging by a thread : cotton, globalization, and poverty in Africa / edited by William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xii, 297 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Moseley, William G.
Gray, Leslie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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

Series:

Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 9

ISBN:

9171066144
9789171066145
0896802604 (pb : alk. paper)
9780896802605 (pb : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)182962840

LCCN:

2007048114

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)