Hanging by a Thread : Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa.

Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa -- Part I Global Cotton, Local Crises -- Chapter One Producing Poverty: Power Relations and Price Formation in the Cotton Commodity Chains of West Africa -- Chapter Two Cotton Production in Burkina Faso: International Rhetoric versus Local Realities -- Chapter Three Mali's Cotton Conundrum: Commodity Production and Development on the Periphery -- Chapter Four The Decline of Bt Cotton in KwaZulu-Natal: Technology and Institutions -- Part II Organizing Cotton: National-Level Reforms and Rural Livelihoods -- Chapter Five The Many Paths of Cotton Sector Reform in East and Southern Africa: Lessons from a Decade of Experience -- Chapter Six Cotton Production, Poverty, and Inequality in Rural Benin: Evidence from the 1990s -- Chapter Seven Rural Development Is More Than Commodity Production: Cotton in the Farming System of Kita, Mali -- Chapter Eight Cotton Casualties and Cooperatives: Reinventing Farmer Collectives at the Expense of Rural Malian Communities? -- Part III Alternate Futures: Genetically Engineered and Organic Cotton -- Chapter Nine Genetically Engineered Cotton: Politics, Science, and Power in West Africa -- Chapter Ten Organic Cotton in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Development Paradigm? -- Conclusion Hanging by a Thread: The Future of Cotton in Africa -- Index.

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