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Better Cotton

PRESS RELEASE / Event

21 May 2024

3 minutes

Better Cotton will host its annual conference 26-27 June in the cotton-producing country of Türkiye, renowned for its textile manufacturing.

Policy, Data and Field-Level Impact in Focus for Better Cotton Conference in Istanbul

Geneva, Switzerland: Better Cotton will host its annual conference 26-27 June in the cotton-producing country of Türkiye, renowned for its textile manufacturing. Taking place at the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel & Conference Center, the event will bring together more than 200 industry stakeholders – both in-person and online – representing all...

Cotton LCA / Better Cotton

2 May 2024

2 minutes

Better Cotton plans to monitor and report on other key sustainability issues not covered by the LCA approach, such as soil health, biodiversity, pesticide use, women’s empowerment and sustainable livelihoods.

Better Cotton to Change LCA Approach, Collaborate with Cascale, Focus Instead on Country-Level LCAs

Better Cotton, which has been at the receiving end over its failure to check deforestation and human rights abuses by cotton companies in Brazil, has decided to change its approach to lifecycle assessments by focusing on country-level LCAs.

Staff Writer

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

2 May 2024

2 minutes

Tata Djire, Agronomist, with cotton farmers in a field in Togoya.

Better Cotton Joins WTO and FIFA Efforts To Scale More Sustainable Cotton Production in Africa

London, U.K.: Better Cotton is to conduct sustainability mapping and assessments in West and Central Africa to enhance its understanding of the needs of smallholder farmers in the region and identify context-specific interventions.

Funded by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), these assessments will inform ways in which targeted support...

Dirty Cotton / Brazil Scandal

24 April 2024

6 minutes

A drone photograph of flagrant deforestation in Correntina. The Earthsight report had provided enough evidence, all of which were summarily dismissed by the auditor of Better Cotton.

Brazil Scandal: Auditor Absolves Better Cotton of Allegations, Says There's No 'Non-Compliance'

A clean chit notwithstanding, Better Cotton, in not addressing the loopholes with the standard itself, has only exposed itself to further investigation. And that’s despite the sugar-coated admissions that “we will take action to expand our due diligence process."

Special Correspondent

Report

Dirty Cotton / Brazil Scandal

11 April 2024

5 minutes

The climate impact has been enormous: clearing Cerrado vegetation for agricultural production generates as much carbon per year as the annual emissions of 50 million cars.

H&M and Zara Linked to Deforestation, Rights Abuses and Land-Grab; Asian Suppliers Sourcing Dirty Cotton from Brazil with Better Cotton Label

UK nonprofit Earthsight’s investigations reveal nearly a million tonnes of tainted cotton from some of the most notorious estates in Brazil to clothing manufacturers in Asia, and being supplied to fast fashion behemoths H&M and Zara.

Subir Ghosh

Report

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

14 November 2023

2 minutes

Better Cotton is committed to building upon its presence across Africa to enable smallholder farmers to mitigate climate change and adopt a continuous improvement approach to sustainable agricultural practice.

Better Cotton Expands in West Africa with New Côte d'Ivoire Programme

London, U.K.: Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has announced the opening a new programme in Côte d'Ivoire and committed to supporting 200,000 domestic cotton farmers in its first five years.

The new field-level programme will offer training and resources to farming communities across the country, a first step...

Traceability / Better Cotton

3 November 2023

2 minutes

Better Cotton wants to scale up the availability and sourcing granularity of traceable Better Cotton to serve as the foundation for an Impact Marketplace that would compensate farmers for field-level progress, and enable country-level Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) to calculate the environmental impact of Better Cotton in relation to conventional cotton.

Better Cotton Launches Own Traceability Solution for Fashion and Textiles Sectors

The Better Cotton Platform, Better Cotton’s just launched own traceability solution for the fashion and textiles sectors from the ginning stage right through to the retailer or brand, will enable suppliers to log transactional information, culminating in visibility of where the raw material has originated from and how much is within a product.

Staff Writer

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

6 October 2023

2 minutes

Safeya has been working as a cotton picker for the past 30 years. With the recent collaborations & developments she hopes that the cotton industry in Egypt thrives, as well as her income.

Better Cotton and Cotton Egypt Association Inaugurate Renewed Strategic Partnership at Multistakeholder Event in Cairo

London, U.K.: Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, and Cotton Egypt Association (CEA), the organisation responsible for promoting and protecting Egyptian cotton worldwide, inaugurated the launch of their renewed strategic partnership at a multi-stakeholder event in Cairo on Wednesday, October 4, 2023.

Uniting key...

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

27 September 2023

2 minutes

Panel (from left to right): Dimas Rizzo Escalante, President of Espalgodon; Carmen Crespo Díaz Secretary of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development of the Regional Government of Andalusia; Damien Sanfilippo, Senior Director of Programmes, Better Cotton.

Better Cotton Launches Strategic Partnership in Spain

London, U.K.: Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, will today inaugurate the launch of a strategic partnership in Spain by hosting a multistakeholder event in Seville.

The meeting will convene the Interprofessional Cotton Association (Espalgodon) and the Regional Government of Andalucia – two stakeholders that have...

PRESS RELEASE / Statement

22 September 2023

2 minutes

Better Cotton Farmer Punamchand Jalela mixing ingredients found in nature to make bio-pesticide.

Better Cotton Calls for Eradication of Highly Hazardous Pesticides in Agriculture

London, U.K.: Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, and its partners in the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Coalition have issued a position paper demanding a global phase-out of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) across agricultural supply chains.

Ahead of the fifth session of the International Conference on...