The recent Earthsight report on cotton farming in Brazil generated a lot of heat and dust. But there's more to the issue than meets the eye, and the trials and tribulations of farming communities everywhere remain unnoticed and unacknowledged. A compelling perspective from the ground in Mexico.

Will Bangladesh be able to capitalise on the three-year breather before it loses duty-free market access under various trade agreements as it seeks to graduate from Least Developed Country (LDC) status? An analysis.

Since Independence a land-that-was, the eastern Indian state of Bihar is going all out to reclaim its glory and the recent Bihar Business Connect 2023 was just the catalyst it needed, drawing more than 5,000 investors, entrepreneurs, designers, exporters, buyers and exhibitors from all over the country and abroad.

The fashion industry shifted from the sidelines to a more prominent role in the discussions at this climate conference. Time it is also for the sector to match its green rhetoric with robust measures to decarbonise, invest in renewable energy and phase-out reliance on fossil fuels. A first person account from the COP28 event in Dubai.

The textiles-fashion industry is living in a bubble where nature does not exist and all that babble about sustainability is just that. That's the impression one gets after reading between the lines of the annual Materials Benchmark of nonprofit Textile Exchange. Like always, there’s been a lot of progress, but a lot also remains to be done.

A meaningful transition to a circular model has not quite materialised. While almost half of assessed companies have at least one circular fashion programme in place, only 31% have publicly committed to any aspect of the circularity business model. Even fewer are tracking on how much materials from those programmes are actually removed from the waste stream.

The importance of the cotton plant in the fashion industry in tackling climate change is often under a shadow. Not many are aware that it takes planet-warming gases out of our atmosphere and sequesters them in its biomass, giving it a net negative carbon footprint. As Mumbai gears up for the opening of the International Cotton Advisory Committee’s 81st Plenary Meeting, 2–5 December, learn more about this wonder raw material. 

A just-published report on the fashion industry's approach to the climate crisis finds that the Science-Based Targets (SBTs) are a cudgel to browbeat the Global South. The report raises important questions, and also triggers the need to expand the North-South divide debate.

Biella, located in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, is home to Italy’s wool textile industry. This traditional and iconic city now hosts the annual Natural Fibres Connect conference, from where texfash.com gets this report.

Strategic sourcing is an iterative process, requiring ongoing monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation to ensure optimal supplier selection and value realisation for an enterprise. A step-by-step guide on how to go about sourcing strategically.