Governing cotton : globalization and poverty in Africa / / Adam Sneyd
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| Autore: |
Sneyd Adam <1978->
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| Titolo: |
Governing cotton : globalization and poverty in Africa / / Adam Sneyd
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| Pubblicazione: | Basingstoke ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.1/7351096 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cotton trade - Africa |
| Poverty - Africa | |
| Economic development - Africa | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Cotton-Picking Problems Beyond the WTO; 2 Historic Relationships Between Cotton and Poverty; 3 Global Trade Governance and Cotton Dependence: Beyond Poverty Maintenance; 4 Breaking the Historic Relationships in Tanzania; 5 NGOs, Conventional Production and Poverty; 6 CSR and the Cotton-Poverty Relationship; 7 Conclusions: Global Interventions and Poverty Eradication; Appendix A: Sources for Cotton Statistics; Appendix B: Stabilization, Adjustment and Rural Livelihoods; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Governing cotton |
| ISBN: | 1-282-99950-8 |
| 9786612999505 | |
| 0-230-29945-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825950003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
International political economy series.