Responsible consumption and production are key to sustainable development, and are therefore a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 12) in their own right. Consumption and production patterns also need to be socially responsible and economically viable. Private-sector requirements and state supply...

We examine the long-term impact of forced labour on individual risk behaviour and economic decisions. For that, we focus on a policy of coercive cotton cultivation enforced in colonial Mozambique between 1926 and 1961. We combine archival sources about the boundaries of historical cotton...

This study examines the price transmission between cotton prices in U.S., Indian, and Chinese futures markets. We focus on studying the long-run price movements using cointegration and alternate causality tests. The empirical results indicate the following: (a) the U.S. cotton futures market...

Synthetic pesticides can be detrimental to the health of humans, particularly when handled inappropriately, which is often the case in developing countries. We investigate to what extent using personal protective equipment (PPE) during pesticide application can mitigate the detrimental health...

This paper uses the diamond model theory as the basic research perspective to explore how the upstream and downstream industrial chains of cotton in Xinjiang can escape from the constraints of reality and how their resource endowments can be transformed into competitive advantages. This paper...

Responsible consumption and production are key to sustainable development, and are therefore a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 12) in their own right. Consumption and production patterns also need to be socially responsible and economically viable. Private-sector requirements and state supply...

The objective of this study is to verify the advantages and challenges of increasing certified cotton production and to analyze whether meeting the certification requirements guarantees Brazil access to the world market. As a way of answering these questions, data on the cotton production chain...

We report the amphoteric and composited modification of semi-carbonized fibers (SCFs) prepared using cotton and acrylic clothes for de-risking heavy metal-contaminated water to realize the resource utilization of waste clothes in wastewater treatment. Adsorption capacities of heavy metal on...

The objective of this study is to verify the advantages and challenges of increasing certified cotton production and to analyze whether meeting the certification requirements guarantees Brazil access to the world market. As a way of answering these questions, data on the cotton production chain...

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and capital were seen as the main threat, over time large landowners and their imperial allies were...

This paper examines the variety of agrarian classes of labour and the challenges they face in organizing and pursuing their interests. By taking the cotton sector in Burkina Faso as a case study, it analyses how various ‘classes of labour’ organize and mobilize for collective action to raise...

Cotton is an important cash crop playing a vital role in socio-economic development of the country. The main objectives of the study was to assess the production and marketing trend of cotton by analyzing the area, production, productivity, and trade from 2010-2019. The study used a secondary...

Cotton, a worthwhile raw material and a core of the textile manufactures, has been the most crucial resource for many centuries and still keeps its top placement. Cotton has a very ancient history in Azerbaijan as well and the first burned cotton skein and cotton seeds were found Mingachevir...

Quantification of evapotranspiration (ET) is critical to sustainable management of irrigated agriculture. To date, attempts at measuring regional ET in arid and semi-arid regions with complex surface characteristics have been largely unsuccessful. In this study, we proposed a remote sensing data...

Developing an all-biomass feedstock, simple process and low-cost way to achieve cotton fabric flame retardation is of great significance in civil, military and industrial fields. Herein, making use of layer-by-layer coating of protein extracted from fishery waste fish scales and phytic acid (PA)...

This paper examines whether agricultural insurance can boost investment by small scale farmers in West Africa. We conduct a randomized evaluation to analyze the impacts of index insurance for cotton farmers in Burkina Faso. We find no impact of insurance on cotton, but, consistent with...

Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Genn.) and Pink Bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella Saund.) are two major challenges in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Overdue use of synthetic pesticides especially pyrethroids flare up the whitefly population in cotton. The current study emphasizes the impact of...

Non-mulch planting technology is an effective mean to solve the residual plastic mulch pollution in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) fields in southern Xinjiang. The impacts of irrigation management on the growth development and yield of non-mulch cotton were quantitatively evaluating by employing...

Cotton is the most commercial crop in India. The farmers can get good capital when the production of cotton is good. The cotton crop is easily exposed to the disease which reduces productivity. In this paper, an iOS app is developed which will detect the cotton disease by taking a photo of the...

As an emerging efficient and sustainable technology, solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) has great potential to tackle the freshwater crisis by purifying water from brine or wastewater, in which photothermal conversion materials (PCMs), play a primary and critical role. Herein, we report...

Today's world has many untold truths, and unethical practices hidden behind the beautiful and glamorous clothes that people wear, especially during cotton production. Cotton can be found everywhere. It is in clothes, bed linens, towels, "furniture, tablecloths, curtains, toys such as dolls and...

The prices of cash crops are crucial to the livelihood of millions of households in developing countries. While the influence of financial investors on the determination of global commodity prices on derivative exchanges is extensively discussed, the role of physical actors in the global value...