HONG KONG — One after another, Africa’s trade ministers rose to the podium and made their pleas to the World Trade Organization. “Our countries cannot be bled at this rate for a long time ...

Cotton Culture in Africa. Share full article. July 21, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from July 21, 1861, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

With African cotton exports in 2002-03 accounting for 20 per cent of total world output and worth an estimated US $1.56 billion, the researchers sought to discover what type of market system works ...

While besuited government officials slug it out at world trade talks in Geneva this week, African peasant farmers watching their cotton plants grow hope any deal will allow them to farm their way ...

Africa's move into genetically modified cotton will be a vindication for Monsanto, which has been selling bioengineered cotton, corn, and soybeans in South Africa since the mid-1990s.

Cotton, known then as White-Gold, is a good place to start the story of colonialism and the industrial revolution. Cotton was king. It was as important in world trade in the18th and 19 th century ...

After three seasons of growing cotton for Dunavant, the world’s largest privately owned cotton broker and one of the biggest family-owned agribusinesses in the United States, Mr. Okelo, who owns ...

After three seasons of growing cotton for Dunavant, the world’s largest privately owned cotton broker and one of the biggest family-owned agribusinesses in the United States, Mr. Okelo, who owns ...

Will Africa cotton to bioengineering? By G. Pascal Zachary, Fortune. January 29 2007: 5:43 PM EST ...

After three seasons of growing cotton for Dunavant, the world’s largest privately owned cotton broker and one of the biggest family-owned agribusinesses in the United States, Mr. Okelo, who owns ...