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Cotton Diaries

Cotton Farming / Narratives

4 April 2024

5 minutes

The media toolkit is not only for professionals in fashion and textile industries but also for editors and storytellers looking for on-the-ground stories ideas, as also climate and social justice activists looking to learn from holistic and community-centred solutions.

Cotton at the Source Project Gives Cotton Narratives a Much-Needed Boost

A media toolkit for cotton targets well-meaning journalists to write stories from the ground. texfash.com talks about that and stresses on the need for cotton trade associations to be a more open source for data and stories from the ground.

By

Subir Ghosh

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Cotton Markets / Liverpool Cotton Brokers

28 March 2024

7 minutes

For a long time, the retail sector was under the impression that organic cotton would be their answer to sustainable sourcing but there are many reasons why organic will never reach scale and still only 1% of world cotton production is organic.

There Is an Information Block Between the Retail and Agricultural Ends of the Supply Chain

All things cotton and the global market scenario from regenerative to organic, the urgent imperative to go sustainable and more is what Ben Eaves, Director of Liverpool Cotton Brokers Ltd, discusses in this freewheeling tete-a-tete with texfash.com.

By

Subir Ghosh

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