Cotton Burkina Faso
A Peace Corps volunteer teaches english at a school in a remote village. Before world cotton prices plummeted, cotton producer groups contributed a part of their income to build schools, clinics, and other projects in the villages. Since prices have fallen below production costs, all community development projects have ground to a halt. Many of the benefits of development aid, debt relief and humanitarian programs are wiped out by the loses from cotton revenue. .Pad?ma, Burkina Faso. 15 December 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
