WTO “Cotton Day” focuses on assistance for cotton sector, progress in negotiations

At WTO “Cotton Day” on 19 June, the Cotton 4 producers —Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali — and other WTO members discussed with donors the lessons learned from recent cotton assistance projects. The need for both private and public funding and risk-mitigating guarantees for these projects emerged as some of the ways to make development assistance more effective. WTO members also discussed the latest state of play in cotton negotiations since the 11th Ministerial Conference at the end of last year.

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