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US Climate Smart Cotton Program

Climate Action / US Cotton

4 July 2023

2 minutes

A harvester in Mississippi. The Climate Smart Cotton Program brings together leaders and partners from supply chain outreach, academia and sustainability.

Cotton Growers Get Chance to Become Climate-Smart under US Cotton Trust Protocol Project

The US Cotton Trust Protocol has launched a five-year project which seeks to measure and improve the carbon footprint of the US cotton industry.

Staff Writer

Climate Action / US Cotton

16 September 2022

3 minutes

The US Climate-Smart Cotton Program will build markets for climate-smart cotton and provide technical and financial assistance to over 1,000 US cotton farmers, including underserved cotton producers, to advance adoption of climate-smart practices on more than 1 million acres, producing millions of bales of Climate-Smart Cotton over five years.

USDA Wants Cotton to Be Climate-Smart, US Cotton Trust Protocol Gets $90 million

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has selected the US Cotton Trust Protocol to lead the US Climate Smart Cotton Program with a funding ceiling of $90 million. This will be one of the 70 projects selected under the first pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity.

Staff Writer