Over the last five crop seasons, cotton production has tripled in Burkina Faso after the country began a sectoral reform. The first step of the reform consisted of setting up a new institutional design giving rights to farmers to create their own groups while the second step established a

Cotton has a strategic importance for Central Africa countries in terms of incomes for the producers and of budgetary receipts for States. However, the Central Africa’s cotton sector faces financial difficulties due to crises in the international market and to the internal structural factors

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author(s), they do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank Group, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent and should not be attributed to them.

bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed Pu bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed Pu bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed Pu bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed

The Food Security Research Project is a collaboration between the Agricultural Consultative Forum (ACF), the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, and Michigan State University’s Department of Agricultural Economics (MSU). We wish to acknowledge the financial and substantive support of the United States Agency

Cotton is one of the most important smallholder cash crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). How to ensure input supply, credit recovery and competition is a subject of intense policy debate. This paper examines the performance of cotton sector development policies in Mozambique and Zambia. Both

/02 and the potential for further growth is substantial, particularly in West and Central Africa. Reforms have been undertaken in several SSA countries to improve the competitive position of the cotton sectors and strengthen private sector involvement. Some of the reforms programs have been successful while some other

T his report is the final product of a country case study prepared in the framework of the comparative analysis of organization and performance of cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, a study published by the World Bank in 2008. The objective of the overall study was to carry out a comparative

have contributed to this work, especially Benjamine Hanyani-Mlambo, Wilbald Maro,

www.card.iastate.edu Cheng Fang is a former assistant scientist and Chinese agriculture and international cotton