Institutional Reform in the Burkinabè Cotton Sector and its Impacts on Incomes and Food Security
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Interlinked Agreements and Institutional Reform in the Cotton Sector of Burkina Faso by Jonathan Kaminski :: NEUDC 2007 Papers :: Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference :: Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID)
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 professional partnership (with a privatization process for the former parastatal cotton firm) where cotton ...
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