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The Cotton Campaigne |
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There
is a development cataclysm that has evolved largely
unnoticed over the past decade. It is the cotton crisis
that have affected millions of farmers in most developing
countries particularly in West Africa where cotton growers
have been driven out of production as a result of artificially
managed low prices at the world market. Cotton growers
in Southern Africa, particularly Mozambique and Zimbabwe
have also been plunged into deep poverty, as incomes
from cotton farming continue to dwindle under armpits
of an all time low prices offered by cotton merchants.
The Southern Africa Cotton Campaign programme is one
of the many initiatives on agricultural trade policy
and livelihoods in the region and internationally that
is being spearheaded by SEATINI, Oxfam Southern Africa
Regional Office, ABIODES, Zimcodd and supported by a
host of other organisations, governments, the producers
and private sector. The programme seeks to address the
situation described above. Noting the plight of small-scale
producers in southern Africa stemming mainly form low
world prices of cotton this programme seeks to proffer
practical suggestions for improving livelihoods in cotton
through a coordinated stakeholder campaign. |
| Cotton
Global Policy Design |
| Cotton
global policy design: are there policy makers and policy
takers? Who is who? ...more |
| Why
The Global Cotton Price is Falling |
| What
is of great concern to developing countries is the falling
global price of the commodity over the last ten years
with disastrous consequences on developing country farmers’
income and government export revenues. The last three
seasons in Zimbabwe witnessed price wars between the farmer
organisations requesting high prices and cotton merchants
offering low prices for the commodity ...more |
| Cotton
NGO Mob strategy |
| A cotton campaign strategy:
Mass mobililzation and Exposure: Make politicians accountable!
....more |
| Fate
of Cotton Production in Zimbabwe : Zambezi Valley case
study |
| Prior to the land reform
programme in Zimbabwe, cotton was the second largest foreign
currency-earning crop in the country grown largely by
peasants in semi-arid regions, with an average annual
rainfall of 600mm per annum and temperatures of around
30 degrees Celsius. The purpose of the study is to identify
the problems that cotton farmers face with the view of
developing a strategy that will help revitalise the cotton
sector. ...more |
| Domestic
Mobilization and alliance building |
| Domestic mobilization and
alliance building: there is need for a north and a south
strategy. ...more |
| Impact
of Globalisation on Rural Livelihoods; In the Mid-Zambezi
Valley (1980-2002) |
| This is a report based
on the effects of globalisation defined as opening up
of domestic markets to international forces through trade
liberalisation and privatisation on the livelihoods of
the people in Lower Guruve (Dande), part of the Mid-Zambezi
Valley over the past two decades. Before independence
in 1980, the area was largely traditional due to its isolation
and neglect. ...more
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