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Francois B. Traore, president of the Union Nationale des Producteurs de Coton du Burkina (UNPC-B), in front of pictures of Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and Martin Luther King at his home..Burkina Faso produces some of the world's highest quality, low-cost cotton. But huge American and European cotton subsidies are destroying the industry.
J.B. Russell / Panos Pictures/Felix Features 5 Feb 2004
Bobo Dioulassou