Better Cotton revolutionizes cotton sector with traceability solution

Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has officially launched a first-of-its-kind traceability solution for the fashion and textile sectors. The solution has been developed over three years and will provide visibility of cotton’s journey through the supply chain by logging stakeholder input on the Better Cotton Platform. The organization has worked closely with [...]

By |2023-11-03T08:16:17-05:00November 3, 2023|

Better Cotton, IDH Event explore regenerative agriculture scalability

Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, and IDH hosted an event in New Delhi, India, to build consensus on the scope and merits of regenerative agriculture, as well as to identify opportunities for action across policy, business, finance, and research. The event – ‘AgriClimate Nexus: Food, Fibre and Regeneration for Sustainable Growth in [...]

By |2023-10-17T16:16:46-05:00October 17, 2023|

Better Cotton calls for eradication of HHPs

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 Chemicals Management (ICCM5), set to take place in Bonn, [...]

By |2023-09-25T06:27:44-05:00September 25, 2023|

Better Cotton signs UNECE pledge for traceability, transparency

Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has signed the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Sustainability Pledge ahead of the launch of its Traceability Solution at the end of 2023. The Sustainability Pledge is an open-source suite of policy recommendations, guidelines and standards that enable industry actors to authenticate their sustainability claims. [...]

By |2023-07-31T08:52:27-05:00July 14, 2023|

Better Cotton updates field-level Principles & Criteria

Photo: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has revised its Principles & Criteria (P&C) to ensure it remains an effective tool to drive continuous improvement and deliver sustainability impact at field-level. The P&C define the organization’s approach to more sustainable cotton production and establish the requirements farmers [...]

By |2023-04-20T12:28:02-05:00April 20, 2023|

Tajikistan strengthens ties with Better Cotton

Better Cotton has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tajikistan Ministry of Agriculture to reinforce the pair’s partnership and further support the production of more sustainable cotton across the Central Asian nation. The MoU was signed by Better Cotton’s Director of Fundraising, Rebecca Owen, and Tajikistan’s Minister of Agriculture, His Excellency Qurbon Khakimzoda, [...]

By |2023-04-07T11:02:52-05:00April 7, 2023|
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