The cotton which is grown in West Africa is used by the native African tribes themselves, who weave it into substantial cloths, which are thrown over their persons, or made into a garment much ...

Throughout the week, cotton-growing countries in Africa, which are among some of the poorest on Earth, have pressed the United States to swiftly do away with cotton subsidies for American farmers.

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 ...

Without pausing to wipe the sweat from their brows, workers in northern Ivory Coast picked cotton by the handful - a crop saved by the use of extra insecticides after a new pest wreaked record ...

Cotton Made in Africa (CmiA) has launched a program in Tanzania to monitor cotton fields using satellite-supported remote sensing. It follows India, which launched a similar program in the spring.

Cotton is a lifeline for Africa – bringing in foreign currency and providing jobs for millions of people. But 20 years after the African Cotton Producers’ Association was founded, growers say ...

Thirty varieties of cotton have been found growing spontaneously in Africa A mis sionary says he has stood erect under the branches ot a cotton tree in a Goulah village1 so heavily laden with ...

Boost for African cotton production Better Cotton, in collaboration with Afreximbank, is working with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to increase cotton production in Nigeria and the rest of ...

Cotton was king in the South during slavery and the post-Civil War Era, which is why cotton still conjures up memories of an oppressive past for many African Americans.

Cotton is a lifeline for Africa - bringing in foreign currency and providing jobs for millions of people. But 20 years after the African Cotton Producers' Association was founded, growers say the ...