Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UG
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.creator.identifierJosé B. Falck-Zepeda: 0000-0002-8604-7154
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Program for Biosafety Systems
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankA
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorHorna, Danielaen
dc.contributor.authorFalck-Zepeda, José B.en
dc.contributor.authorKyotalimye, Miriamen
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-01T13:56:56Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-01T13:56:56Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153630
dc.titleAssessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmersen
dcterms.abstractIn Uganda, cotton has been characterized as a crop with relatively low profitability, mostly due to low productivity (Baffes 2009), but also because it is affected by fluctuations in cotton’s world price. Studies done by APSEC (1998, 2001) ranked cotton as the lowest in profitability among the main competing crops on the global market. Despite cotton’s low profitability, farmers continue to plant it. The most-often-cited reason for continued cotton production is a lack of productive alternatives that can generate cash for smallholders and larger farmers during the period cotton is planted. The certainty that cotton producers will have a buyer at the end of the season is probably another strong argument for cotton cultivation: ginneries usually distribute seed and inputs and in turn demand rights over the seed cotton harvest at the end of the cropping season.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHorna, Daniela; Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin and Kyotalimye, Miriam. 2013. Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers. In Socioeconomic considerations in biosafety decisionmaking: Methods and implementation. Eds. Horna, Daniela; Zambrano, Patricia and Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin. Chapter 5. Pp. 61-93. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153630en
dcterms.extent33 p.en
dcterms.issued2013
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/127852en
dcterms.subjectbiotechnologyen
dcterms.subjecttransgenic plantsen
dcterms.subjectrisk assessmenten
dcterms.subjecteconomic aspectsen
dcterms.subjectbiosafety regulationsen
dcterms.subjectbiotechnological safetyen
dcterms.subjectsocio-economic developmenten
dcterms.subjectgenetically engineered organismsen
dcterms.subjectgenetically modified foodsen
dcterms.subjectdata collectionen
dcterms.subjectgenetic variationen
dcterms.subjectex ante impact assessmenten
dcterms.subjectex-post impact assessmenten
dcterms.subjectdeveloping countriesen
dcterms.subjectcottonen
dcterms.subjecteconomic impacten
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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