CAMEROON'S COTTON REVIVAL IN THE GRIP OF ECONOMIC CRISES - Oumarou Yalla

In the second half of the 80s, cotton growing was hit by a crisis largely undermined by the fall and volatility of world cotton prices and, in part, by the country's economic difficulties. This situation was the starting point for the Bretton Woods international bodies to question the CFDT model. According to these institutions, the organizations in charge of cotton marketing were cumbersome, costly and often opaque, allowing no real control and leading to misappropriation of funds to the detriment..