Cotton Price Risk Management Course Materials
Course materials for download from the Agricultural Risk Management Team (ARMT) of the World Bank. This training was held in Mombasa, Kenya in June 2011.
This course was offered to cotton traders and ginners as well as representatives from farmers associations, industry bodies, and academia from throughout East and Southern Africa. The course aimed to provide an overview of how these groups could manage price risk within the cotton trade.
- “Introduction to Cotton Price Risk Management”, Andrei Guitchounts, Economist, International Cotton Advisory Committee. June 2011
- “Cotton Price Volatility”, Gerald Estur, Consultant. June 2011
- “Risk Assessment”, Andrei Guitchounts, Economist, International Cotton Advisory Committee. June 2011
- “Breakeven Example”, Gerald Estur, Consultant. June 2011
- “Physical Strategies”, Gerald Estur, Consultant. June 2011
- “Intro to Hedging”, Gerald Estur, Consultant. June 2011
- “Cotton Price Risk Management - Futures Market”, Andrei Guitchounts, Economist, International Cotton Advisory Committee. June 2011
- “More on Futures”, Andrei Guitchounts, Economist, International Cotton Advisory Committee. June 2011
- “Cotton Price Risk Management - Futures Contracts”, Andrei Guitchounts, Economist, International Cotton Advisory Committee. June 2011
- “Options Strategies”, Andrei Guitchounts, Economist, International Cotton Advisory Committee. June 2011
- “Market 06-06-11”, Gerald Estur, Consultant. June 2011
- “Minimum Guaranteed Price Contracts”, Gerald Estur, Consultant. June 2011
- “Futures and Options Summary”, Andrei Guitchounts, Economist, International Cotton Advisory Committee. June 2011