Mali's white revolution: smallholder cotton from 1960 to 2003
One of the pillars of rural development in francophone Africa, the cotton sector serves as a principal motor of economic development, generating benefits to farmers, rural communities, private traders, cotton companies, and national governments.... Government and farmers alike consider cotton a stra...
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| description | One of the pillars of rural development in francophone Africa, the cotton sector serves as a principal motor of economic development, generating benefits to farmers, rural communities, private traders, cotton companies, and national governments.... Government and farmers alike consider cotton a strategic industry.... The Malian cotton model exemplifies the common vertical support system for smallholder agriculture, in which a single entity supplies inputs (usually on credit) in return for guaranteed marketing of the output, from which input costs can be deducted..... In both research and marketing, Mali has benefited from collaboration with regional cotton networks that have achieved important scale economies for many small countries in the region.... Given obvious spillovers of agroclimatic zones across contiguous African countries, this model of regional collaboration in research and marketing illustrates key benefits that could be applied to many other agricultural commodities-bananas, cassava, maize, beans, and livestock, for example. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1575362025-04-08T18:26:59Z Mali's white revolution: smallholder cotton from 1960 to 2003 Tefft, James small farms cotton economic development rural communities marketing research agricultural products One of the pillars of rural development in francophone Africa, the cotton sector serves as a principal motor of economic development, generating benefits to farmers, rural communities, private traders, cotton companies, and national governments.... Government and farmers alike consider cotton a strategic industry.... The Malian cotton model exemplifies the common vertical support system for smallholder agriculture, in which a single entity supplies inputs (usually on credit) in return for guaranteed marketing of the output, from which input costs can be deducted..... In both research and marketing, Mali has benefited from collaboration with regional cotton networks that have achieved important scale economies for many small countries in the region.... Given obvious spillovers of agroclimatic zones across contiguous African countries, this model of regional collaboration in research and marketing illustrates key benefits that could be applied to many other agricultural commodities-bananas, cassava, maize, beans, and livestock, for example. 2004 2024-10-24T12:50:37Z 2024-10-24T12:50:37Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157536 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Tefft, James. 2004. Mali's white revolution: smallholder cotton from 1960 to 2003. 2020 Vision Focus 12(5). Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157536 |
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| title | Mali's white revolution: smallholder cotton from 1960 to 2003 |
| title_full | Mali's white revolution: smallholder cotton from 1960 to 2003 |
| title_fullStr | Mali's white revolution: smallholder cotton from 1960 to 2003 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mali's white revolution: smallholder cotton from 1960 to 2003 |
| title_short | Mali's white revolution: smallholder cotton from 1960 to 2003 |
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| topic | small farms cotton economic development rural communities marketing research agricultural products |
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