Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers
In Uganda, cotton has been characterized as a crop with relatively low profitability, mostly due to low productivity (Baffes 2009), but also because it is affected by fluctuations in cotton’s world price. Studies done by APSEC (1998, 2001) ranked cotton as the lowest in profitability among the main...
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| author | Horna, Daniela Falck-Zepeda, José B. Kyotalimye, Miriam |
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| author_facet | Horna, Daniela Falck-Zepeda, José B. Kyotalimye, Miriam |
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| description | In Uganda, cotton has been characterized as a crop with relatively low profitability, mostly due to low productivity (Baffes 2009), but also because it is affected by fluctuations in cotton’s world price. Studies done by APSEC (1998, 2001) ranked cotton as the lowest in profitability among the main competing crops on the global market. Despite cotton’s low profitability, farmers continue to plant it. The most-often-cited reason for continued cotton production is a lack of productive alternatives that can generate cash for smallholders and larger farmers during the period cotton is planted. The certainty that cotton producers will have a buyer at the end of the season is probably another strong argument for cotton cultivation: ginneries usually distribute seed and inputs and in turn demand rights over the seed cotton harvest at the end of the cropping season. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1536302025-11-06T04:16:11Z Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers Horna, Daniela Falck-Zepeda, José B. Kyotalimye, Miriam biotechnology transgenic plants risk assessment economic aspects biosafety regulations biotechnological safety socio-economic development genetically engineered organisms genetically modified foods data collection genetic variation ex ante impact assessment ex-post impact assessment developing countries cotton economic impact In Uganda, cotton has been characterized as a crop with relatively low profitability, mostly due to low productivity (Baffes 2009), but also because it is affected by fluctuations in cotton’s world price. Studies done by APSEC (1998, 2001) ranked cotton as the lowest in profitability among the main competing crops on the global market. Despite cotton’s low profitability, farmers continue to plant it. The most-often-cited reason for continued cotton production is a lack of productive alternatives that can generate cash for smallholders and larger farmers during the period cotton is planted. The certainty that cotton producers will have a buyer at the end of the season is probably another strong argument for cotton cultivation: ginneries usually distribute seed and inputs and in turn demand rights over the seed cotton harvest at the end of the cropping season. 2013 2024-10-01T13:56:56Z 2024-10-01T13:56:56Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153630 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Horna, Daniela; Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin and Kyotalimye, Miriam. 2013. Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers. In Socioeconomic considerations in biosafety decisionmaking: Methods and implementation. Eds. Horna, Daniela; Zambrano, Patricia and Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin. Chapter 5. Pp. 61-93. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153630 |
| spellingShingle | biotechnology transgenic plants risk assessment economic aspects biosafety regulations biotechnological safety socio-economic development genetically engineered organisms genetically modified foods data collection genetic variation ex ante impact assessment ex-post impact assessment developing countries cotton economic impact Horna, Daniela Falck-Zepeda, José B. Kyotalimye, Miriam Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers |
| title | Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers |
| title_full | Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers |
| title_fullStr | Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers |
| title_short | Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers |
| title_sort | assessing genetically modified cotton s economic impact on farmers |
| topic | biotechnology transgenic plants risk assessment economic aspects biosafety regulations biotechnological safety socio-economic development genetically engineered organisms genetically modified foods data collection genetic variation ex ante impact assessment ex-post impact assessment developing countries cotton economic impact |
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