A Socio - Economic Survey in the Province of Nampula : Cotton in the Smallholder Economy

The working paper publication series is designed to provide users with timely research results while refinements and longer term synthesis are completed, and final reports are available. The preparation of working papers and their discussion with those who design and influence programs and policies in Mozambique is an important step in the Directorates's overall analysis and planning mission. Comments and suggestions on these working papers by interested users helps identify additional questions for consideration in further research and helps refine major reports being written by Directorate researchers. Users of these working papers are encouraged to submit comments and inform us of ongoing information and analysis needs. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The National Directorate of Agricultural Economics is undertaking collaborative research in the food security area with Michigan State University (the Department of Agricultural Economics) and with the University of Arizona (the Department of Agricultural Economics and the Bureau of Applied Anthropology Research). We wish to acknowledge the financial and substantive support of the Ministry of Agriculture of Mozambique and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Maputo to complete food security research in Mozambique. Research support from the Africa Bureau and the Bureau of Research and Development of AID/Washington have also made it possible for Michigan State University researchers to participate in this research, and to help conduct field activities in Mozambique.