Paying the Price: How US Farm Policies Hurt West African Cotton Farmers - and How Subsidy Reform Could Help

Author:
Julian M. Alston, Daniel A. Sumner, and Henrich Brunke
Publisher:
Oxfam
Publication Date:
21 June 2007
Tags:
West Africa, NGOs and Civil Society, Commodities, Agribusiness, Environment

Cotton subsidy reform could substantially improve the welfare of over one million West African households—10 million people—by increasing their incomes from cotton by 8 to 20 percent. For farmers living on less than $1 a day, this means more money for food, medicines, school fees, and fertilizer—more money to help sustain lives and livelihoods.

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