Mali's Great Cotton Stitch-Up

Some 40 percent of rural households depend on cotton, but prices have been driven down over the last 40 years and huge subsidies to EU and American farmers have ensured that Mali doesn't get a fair price.

Cotton farmers in Burkina Faso.

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