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| Tschirley, David L.; Kabwe, Stephen. |
| 1. Zambia has paid among the best nominal seed cotton prices to farmers in SSA since 1995. 2. By a more refined measure (share of FOT), during 1995-1999, Zambia paid prices comparable to those in Tanzania (a very competitive sector), and substantially higher than in Mozambique and WCA. However, from 2000-2005, Zambia's pricing performance fell, and exceeded only Zimbabwe and Mozambique in our sample 3. The recently announced reference price for 2008 of ZKW 1,200/kg of seed cotton was negotiated and jointly announced by ginners and farmers. It amounts to about 53% of FOT at current exchange rates and Index A prices; about equal to recent shares received by farmers in Zambia, but well below levels in WCA and Tanzania. 4. What “rules of the game” are... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Cotton; Crop Production/Industries; Q20. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54634 |
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| Janzen, Joseph P.. |
| Analysis of the cotton futures price spike and its effects on commercial hedgers suggest that we do not completely understand the behavior of markets and firms in periods of extreme volatility. After presenting the story of the cotton futures price spike, this paper argues that explanations related to the funding liquidity of firms and the liquidity of the markets themselves may help us better understand market volatility. A simple model of futures market equilibrium in the presence of liquidity constraints demonstrates how prices can spike as fast as they did and why such spikes can drive firms to exit. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Futures; Hedging; Liquidity constraints; Cotton; Agribusiness; Financial Economics. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61453 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Kabwe, Stephen. |
| Cotton is an unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. Yet the entry over the past two years of new players has put the sector under great stress and may have pushed it to a turning point. Now more than ever, effective “rules of the game” are urgently needed to protect Zambia’s remarkable cotton success story. Other countries in southern and eastern Africa have seen dramatic declines in input credit and extension to farmers, and in cotton quality, when competition among ginning firms intensified in the absence of suitable rules of the game. The focus in Zambia must be on establishing broadly accepted rules of the game that ensure honest competition that does not undermine input credit, extension, and cotton quality. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Cotton; Production; Marketing; Crop Production/Industries; Q20. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54627 |
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| Muhammad, Andrew; McPhail, Lihong Lu; Kiawu, James. |
| We estimate the demand for imported cotton in China and assess the competitiveness of cotton-exporting countries. Given the assertion that developing countries are negatively affected by U.S. cotton subsidies, our focus is the price competition between the United States and competing exporters (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, India, and Uzbekistan). We further project how U.S. programs affect China’s imports by country. Results indicate that if U.S. subsidies make other exporting countries worse off, this effect is lessened when global prices respond accordingly. If subsidies are eliminated, China’s cotton imports may not fully recover from the temporary spike in global prices. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: China; Cotton; Import demand; Rotterdam model; Subsidies; United States; West Africa; International Relations/Trade; F17; Q11; Q17. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123786 |
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| Benitah, Marc. |
| The recent WTO cotton ruling has led to a paradoxical result for the United States, a result that seems a textbook illustration of the "law of unintended consequences". Indeed, during the Uruguay Round negotiations of the present WTO agreements, the United States refused to put agricultural export credits in the category of agricultural export subsidies, where they would then have been subject only to reduction commitments. Paradoxically, the United States finds itself now in a position where these same agricultural export credits that it did not condescend to reduce during the Uruguay Round are openly considered as prohibited export subsidies. This article analyses and criticizes the tortuous legal path followed by the cotton panel before arriving at such... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agreement on Agriculture; Brazil; Cotton; Doha Round; Export credits; Export subsidies; SCM; United States; WTO; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23893 |
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| Kelly, Valerie A.; Boughton, Duncan; Magen, Benjamin B.. |
| In 2009, the World Bank published a comparative study of cotton sector reforms, based on detailed case studies carried out during 2007/08 in nine of Africa’s main cotton producing countries. The purpose of the study was to draw practical insights from the diversity of experiences in institutional reforms of cotton sectors and to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the different types of sectors operating in Africa, the likely effects of specific types of policy change, and the possible ways forward. This paper develops a concept note for additional research that would address the perceived weaknesses of the earlier work. The underlying hypothesis of the proposed study is that technology research, farmer training, and policy and institutional... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Cotton; Sustainability; Profitability; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/101163 |
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| Hudson, Darren. |
| The World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations could have important implications for Southern Agriculture. This paper explores some of the issues surrounding the WTO negotiations for cotton. Specifically, this paper examines the impacts of the phase-out of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) on the location of textile production and cotton trade flows. Generally, it is believed that the WTO negotiations will have little direct impact on cotton, but will have indirect impacts through textile policy. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Cotton; WTO; Trade; Textiles; MFA; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15804 |
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| Fannin, James Matthew; Paxton, Kenneth W.. |
| The purpose of this paper is to assess the opportunity returns forgone to cotton producers in the lower Mid-South region of the United States for growing cotton, compared to alternative commodities. We calculate the actual net returns per acre for selected cotton-producing counties in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. In addition, we calculate the opportunity returns per acre if the acres planted in cotton were planted in the highest net return commodity per acre between corn and soybeans during the period 1997 through 2008. Our results find that producers in these cotton producing-counties faced sizeable opportunity revenues foregone averaging 43% between 2003 and 2008. Most observers of the cotton industry would argue that these foregone revenues are... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Cotton ginning; Returns above variable costs; Cotton; Corn; Soybeans; Production Economics; Q10. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98794 |
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| Donovan, Cynthia; Damaseke, M.; Govereh, Jones; Simumba, D.. |
| Inorganic fertilizers will play a role in government programs, but whether or not a single policy is valuable for all farmers depends upon the net gain for the farmers. The research here seeks to demonstrate how to answer the question “Is fertilizer profitable in Zambia for maize and cotton in the smallholder sector?” This study identifies the key components determining profitability and then sets up a framework to evaluate the probability of farmers to obtain profitable results with fertilizer use on maize and cotton. Several cases are selected and the results are evaluated. Private profitability for the farmer at market prices is discussed, leaving social profitability to other researchers. A simple method for farmers and extensionists to use to... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Maize; Cotton; Fertilizer; Agribusiness; Q18. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54606 |
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| Pan, Suwen; Hudson, Darren; Mutuc, Maria Erlinda M.. |
| This paper analyzed the effects of the U.S. domestic offset program on the world cotton markets using a partial equilibrium model following the assumption given by Brown et al. (2010). The results in our study are largely similar to those of Baker et al. and Brown et al., confirming that study’s findings that ACES, and its domestic offset program in particular, would cause increases in the domestic prices of several agricultural commodities. However, the overall effects of this increase in the world price on total world trade is tempered by increased exports from India, Brazil, Uzbekistan, Australia, and Western & Central African countries. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Offset program; Cotton; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade; Q170; Q180. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98557 |
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