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Hanging by a thread : cotton, globalization, and poverty in Africa

Title
Hanging by a thread : cotton, globalization, and poverty in Africa / edited by William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray.
Publication
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Uppsala : Nordic Africa Institute, [2008], ©2008.
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  • Moseley, William G.
  • Gray, Leslie.
Description
xii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 9
Uniform Title
Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 9.
Alternative Title
Cotton, globalization, and poverty in Africa
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Contents
Cotton, globalization, and poverty in Africa / William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray -- 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.
ISBN
  • 9780896802605 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 0896802604 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 9789171066145
  • 9171066144
LCCN
2007048114
OCLC
  • ocn182962840
  • 182962840
  • SCSB-9039064
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Columbia University Libraries