USDA review of EU cotton-sector developments According to the USDA’s annual analysis of the EU cotton sector, while EU27 cotton production has declined about 50% since the 2006 reforms (now re... 02/05/2011
Weather conditions set back efforts to revive Tanzanian cotton sector Tanzania has revised downwards its estimates for cotton production by 40%, as its drought-affected production is unlikely to be more than 54,000 to... 02/05/2011
WAEMU cotton initiative launched On 15 March 2011, the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) launched a lobbying offensive to put the demands of the C4 group of West Afr... 03/04/2011
Improving the functioning of the supply chain seen as key to Tanzanian cotton-sector revival Efforts are under way in Tanzania to improve the functioning of the cotton supply chain, in order to avert a collapse of the cotton industry. It is... 01/03/2011
Initiatives under way to halt decline in Central and West African cotton production Between 2005 and 2008, cotton production in Cameroon witnessed a steady decline from 350,000 tonnes in 2004 to just 150,000 tonnes in 2009. At the... 01/03/2011
Cotton and the reassertion of ACP concerns in the Doha process The ACP group has called for an ‘immediate’ resumption of negotiations on cotton subsidies at the WTO, castigating the US for maintaining support m... 01/03/2011
Cotton prices volatile, but set to remain firm in the short term In December, analysts suggested that cotton prices would remain firm through 2010-11, at levels well above those of the 2009/10 crop year. This was... 03/02/2011
Reports show cotton subsidies continue to pose problems for ACP producers World cotton prices would have been 6% higher on average if the rules on subsidies proposed by four African countries had applied from 1998 to 2007... 25/12/2010
African cotton producers target quality markets at home and abroad It has been reported in the press that Ghana and Egypt have signed an agreement to develop cotton in the north of Ghana. The agreement includes dev... 29/10/2010
Brazil and US renew interim agreement in their cotton dispute The governments of Brazil and the United States have agreed on a further framework for dealing with the cotton dispute in the context of the pendin... 07/08/2010