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264 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential Figure 4. Cotton Value Chain in West Africa Source: Abbott, adapted from RATES, 2005 ...

Chapter 8. Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa 265 Figure 5 compares cotton producer prices to the A index on a lin ...

266 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential 2.5 Smallholder farmers Subsequent analysis will explore policy options, institution ...

Chapter 8. Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa 267 work against smallholders benefiting from specific interventions ...

268 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential intervened in cotton markets in West Africa, partly in response to the World Trade O ...

Chapter 8. Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa 269 institutions such as better market information and legal reforms ...

270 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential intermediaries, and thus their tax incidence as well. Moreover, the largest cocoa ex ...

Chapter 8. Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa 271 needed to be accessible when private market prices prevailed. In ...

272 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential purchases has been a problem for producer organizations. In the rush to market for c ...

Chapter 8. Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa 273 cocoa sector. Credit had been provided to trading agents by para ...

274 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential to play a role in credit provision, and credit provision is critical to providing es ...

Chapter 8. Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa 275 used the public export monopoly to continue imposing high implic ...

276 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential do not receive higher prices for fair-traded cocoa, but proceeds from fair-trade fin ...

Chapter 8. Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa 277 firms find Cameroonian partners, and straddle through these expo ...

278 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential In his survey of Cameroonian farmers, Wilcox (2006) found that farmers who sold to c ...

Chapter 8. Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa 279 In addition to identity preservation, fair trade arrangements pa ...

280 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential result of activities of multinationals and in particular partnerships between multin ...

Chapter 8. Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa 281 mature markets in bulk commodities, with well-established value ...

282 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential Successful producer organizations in privatized markets need to serve as efficient b ...

Chapter 8. Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa 283 References Abbott, P. (2002) Towards More Socially Responsible ...