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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
A Case Study of Regulation in Zambia’s Cotton Sector.
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| Autores: |
Tschirley, David L.
Kabwe, Stephen
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| Data: |
2010-05-17
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| Ano: |
2010
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| Palavras-chave: |
Zambia
Cotton
Africa
Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Security and Poverty
International Development
Q10
Q11
Q12
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| Resumo: |
Cotton is an unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. After privatization in late 1994, seed cotton production rose from 32,000 metric tons (mt) to about 180,000 mt a decade later (three-year averages centered on 1994 and 2005). The number of farmers involved in the sector grew similarly, yields trended upwards (though slowly), and the country dramatically improved the quality of its lint, becoming the outstanding performer in Sub-Saharan Africa in this regard by the mid-2000s. Yet the sector has experienced two serious crashes since reform, both involving rampant credit default by farmers supported with seasonal input credit by ginning companies.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/62145
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| Relação: |
Michigan State University>Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics>Food Security Collaborative Working Papers
FSRP Working Paper
45
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| Formato: |
29
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