Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has callied on the world's top economies not to ignore the globe's poorest countries as they tackle Europe's financial crisis.
Burkina Faso is the third African country, after Egypt and South Africa, to commercialise genetically modified cotton in 2008. But that has not kept prices from dropping.
A new report by the Brussels-based European Network on Debt and Development says billions of euros-worth of aid is being diverted to companies in rich countries.