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Cotton-pickin trade
US and European growers receive government subsidies while farmers in Mali struggle to survive on 300$ a year

Day. Elizabeth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/14/mali-cotton-farmer-fair-trade?INTCMP=SRCH

Publisher:  The Guardian
Date Written:  10/12/2010
Year Published:  2010  
Pages:  3pp  
Resource Type:  Article

Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.

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