We hear from artisan partners again and again that when the women see their work in a global setting, with their names or that of their organization attached, it elevates their self-perception and changes the way they consider their ability to impact their families and communities through their craft.
In the primary cotton production sector specifically, with its diversity of actors across the Latin American territory, making a particular technology or productive technique widely adopted requires different "incentives" depending on whether the producers are family-scale or large-scale. In many cases, the absence of those incentives is precisely what limits the widespread adoption of many available technological advances.