Sneyd Governing Cotton

Globalization and Poverty in Africa
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-29945-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 241 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection

This book traces the historic relationships between cotton production, the international cotton trade and poverty south of the Sahara, and assesses various approaches to corporate social responsibility and nongovernmental policy advocacy in this area.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sneyd, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Cotton-Picking Problems Beyond the WTO Historic Relationships Between Cotton and Poverty Global Trade Governance and Cotton Dependence: Beyond Poverty Maintenance End of Poverty Through the End of the Cotton Trade? Breaking the Historic Relationships in Tanzania NGOs, Conventional Production and Poverty CSR and the Cotton-Poverty Relationship Conclusions: Global Interventions and Poverty Eradication

Über Autor(innen)

ADAM SNEYD Assistant Professor of International Political Economy and Development at the University of Guelph, Canada. He has published on the relevance of the North-South debate in the present era of globalization, and his current research focuses on tropical timber and poverty in the Central Africa region.