Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers

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dc.creatorHorna, Daniela
dc.creatorFalck-Zepeda, José B.
dc.creatorKyotalimye, Miriam
dc.date2013
dc.date2024-10-01T13:56:56Z
dc.date2024-10-01T13:56:56Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:39:51Z
dc.descriptionIn Uganda, cotton has been characterized as a crop with relatively low profitability, mostly due to low productivity (Baffes 2009), but also because it is affected by fluctuations in cotton’s world price. Studies done by APSEC (1998, 2001) ranked cotton as the lowest in profitability among the main competing crops on the global market. Despite cotton’s low profitability, farmers continue to plant it. The most-often-cited reason for continued cotton production is a lack of productive alternatives that can generate cash for smallholders and larger farmers during the period cotton is planted. The certainty that cotton producers will have a buyer at the end of the season is probably another strong argument for cotton cultivation: ginneries usually distribute seed and inputs and in turn demand rights over the seed cotton harvest at the end of the cropping season.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153630
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/111014
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceHorna, Daniela; Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin and Kyotalimye, Miriam. 2013. Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers. In Socioeconomic considerations in biosafety decisionmaking: Methods and implementation. Eds. Horna, Daniela; Zambrano, Patricia and Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin. Chapter 5. Pp. 61-93. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153630
dc.subjectbiotechnology
dc.subjecttransgenic plants
dc.subjectrisk assessment
dc.subjecteconomic aspects
dc.subjectbiosafety regulations
dc.subjectbiotechnological safety
dc.subjectsocio-economic development
dc.subjectgenetically engineered organisms
dc.subjectgenetically modified foods
dc.subjectdata collection
dc.subjectgenetic variation
dc.subjectex ante impact assessment
dc.subjectex-post impact assessment
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjectcotton
dc.subjecteconomic impact
dc.titleAssessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers
dc.typeBook Chapter

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