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Policies and external shocks affecting agriculture, the main source of income for rural households, can be expected to have a significant impact on poverty. The authors study the case of Uganda. Throughout the 1990s, more than 90 percent of its poor lived in rural areas and, during the same period, large international price fluctuations as well as an extensive domestic deregulation affected the coffee sector, its main source of export revenues. Using data from three household surveys covering the 1990s, the authors confirm a strong correlation between changes in coffee prices (in a liberalized market) and poverty reduction. This is highlighted by comparing the performance of different households grouped according to their dependence on coffee farming. Regression analysis (based on pooled data from the three surveys) of consumption expenditure on coffee-related variables, other controls, and time-fixed effects corroborates that the mentioned correlation is not spurious. The authors also find that while both poor and rich farmers enter the coffee sector, the price boom benefits the poorer households relatively more, whereas the liberalization seems to create more opportunities for richer farmers. Finally, notwithstanding the importance of the coffee price boom, the agricultural policy framework and the thorough structural reforms in which the coffee market liberalization was embedded have certainly played a role in triggering overall agricultural growth. These factors appear to matter especially in the second half of the 1990s when prices went down but poverty reduction continued.

Agricultural Activities --- Agriculture --- Alternative Crops --- Capita Incomes --- Coffee --- Coffee Farmers --- Coffee Market --- Coffee Prices --- Coffee Production --- Coffee Sector --- Commodity --- Cotton --- Cotton Production --- Crop --- Crop Prices --- Crops --- Crops and Crop Management Systems --- Export Crops --- Farm --- Farmers --- Farming --- IFPRI

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This paper analyzes and compares the structure of cotton by-products industries in se-lected countries (Uganda, Tanzania, Benin, and Burkina Faso) in the context of the global vegetable oil market. It reaches several conclusions. First, because the markets for various edible oils are highly integrated with each other, examination of each oil market should be done in conjunction with all other (relevant) edible oil markets. Second, the recent surge in demand for commodities used as feedstocks for biofuels is unlikely to become a new source of growth for the cotton oil market. Third, within the context of deepening the on-going reform efforts in West and Central African countries, cotton by-products should be taken into consideration, both in terms of the cotton price setting mechanism and the size of the organization of the cotton by-products industry. Fourth, trade policies including export bans or import tariffs to protect the domestic crushing industries, and policies that favor crude over refined oils, should be rationalized. Fifth, large cottonseed processing operations using advanced technology, while efficient from a technological perspective, tend not to be economically profitable in the African context. Last, research efforts for new cotton varieties should consider the value of by-products, not just lint.

Agricultural commodities --- Agricultural Industry --- Agriculture --- Animal feed --- By-products --- Commodity --- Cotton --- Cotton production --- Cotton sector --- Cotton yields --- Cottonseed --- Crop --- Crops & Crop Management Systems --- Dairy industry --- Energy --- Energy Production and Transportation --- Farm --- Farmers --- Fertilizer --- Fibres textiles --- Industry --- Livestock & Animal Husbandry --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Markets and Market Access --- Meal --- Oilseeds --- Produce --- Seed cotton --- Vegetable oils

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In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics, forging a new form of labor relations. She pays particular attention to Mexican field workers and their organized struggles, including the famous strikes of 1933.Weber's perceptive examination of the relationships between economic structure, human agency, and the state, as well as her discussions of the crucial role of women in both Mexican and Anglo working-class life, make her book a valuable contribution to labor, agriculture, Chicano, Mexican, and California history.

Cotton farmers --- Foreign workers, Mexican --- Migrant agricultural laborers --- NON-CLASSIFIABLE. --- Agricultural migrants --- Migrant agricultural workers --- Migrant farm workers --- Migrants --- Agricultural laborers --- Migrant labor --- Alien labor, Mexican --- Mexican foreign workers --- Cotton growers --- Farmers, Cotton --- Growers, Cotton --- Farmers --- History --- California. --- History. --- California --- E-books --- 20th century american labor politics. --- 20th century american politics. --- agriculture. --- california. --- californian history. --- capitalism. --- chicano history. --- cotton production. --- cotton. --- cultural studies. --- economic structure. --- hispanic american demographic studies. --- human agency. --- labor force. --- labor relations. --- labor. --- latin american history. --- mexican field workers. --- mexican workers. --- migrant workers. --- migration. --- new deal politics. --- new deal relief policies. --- strikes. --- the strike of 1933. --- united states of america. --- worker strikes. --- working class.