YOKOHAMA—Nozomu Kobayashi, who heads a Mitsui & Co. affiliate, is preparing to launch a clothing brand aimed at supporting African cotton farmers by working in QR codes that allow shoppers to see how ...

NEW YORK — Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind many of the oppression suffered by generations of Black slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation. For Black Americans in particular, ...

African governments have long complained that U.S. and European agricultural subsidies are undercutting African farmers. Western farm-support programs and cheap cotton dumped on the world market are ...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - While besuited government officials slug it out at world trade talks in Geneva this week, African peasant farmers watching their cotton plants grow hope any deal will allow ...

HONG KONG — One after another, Africa’s trade ministers rose to the podium and made their pleas to the World Trade Organization. “Our countries cannot be bled at this rate for a long time,” said ...

Joaquim Crima, a 37-year-old native of Guinea Bissau who settled in southern Russia after earning a degree at a local university, is promising to battle corruption and bring development to his ...