A Cotton Tale: The one crop at the heart of trade challenges in Africa
As the WTO meets in Nairobi this week, will the organisation move beyond the poverty of poverty reduction to improve trade for Africa’s
cotton producers?
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Researcher on globalization, development and the political economy of commodities in the Global South
Adam Sneyd conducts research on globalization, development and the political economy of commodities in the Global South. He is currently under contract with Polity Press to write a book on the geopolitics of cotton for Polity’s resources series. He has conducted research on the food security ‘footprint’ of emerging powers such as Brazil and China in Cameroon.
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