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The Incoherence of Agricultural, Trade, and Development Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa: Sowing the Seeds of False Hope for Sub-Saharan Africa's Cotton Farmers?

This paper considers the implications of five developments in 2004 for cotton farmers and the clothing industry in sub-Sahara Africa and asks whether their collective impact will be positive, negative, or neutral. The five developments are (1) the Millennium Challenge Act, (2) the AGOA Acceleration Act of 2004, (3) the WTO cotton initiative, (4) the Brazil-US cotton subsidies dispute, and (5) the termination of the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. The overarching theme of the paper is the lack of overall coherence in U.S. agricultural, trade, and development policies when it comes to sub-Saharan Africa, as evidenced by trade and development programs aimed at improving the lives of people in sub-Saharan Africa, on the one hand, and U.S. subsidies to American cotton producers and the injurious impact those subsidies have had on cotton growers in sub-Saharan Africa, on the other.