Ten Years of Transformation: Better Cotton Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

August 9, 2019 Continuous Improvement

This year the Better Cotton Initiative celebrates its 10th anniversary!

To mark this special year, we invite you to explore BCI’s first decade through an interactive timeline which celebrates the milestones that enabled BCI to evolve into the largest cotton sustainability programme in the world.Today, BCI is supported by more than 1,600 members, and more than twomillion BCI Farmers are producing over five million tonnes of Better Cotton annually. In the 2017-18 cotton season that accounted for 19% of global cotton production.

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Better Cotton is the world’s leading sustainability initiative for cotton. Our mission is to help cotton communities survive and thrive, while protecting and restoring the environment.

In just over 10 years we have become the world’s largest cotton sustainability programme. Our mission: to help cotton communities survive and thrive, while protecting and restoring the environment.

Better Cotton is grown in 22 countries around the world and accounts for 22% of global cotton production. In the 2022-23 cotton season, 2.13 million licensed Better Cotton Farmers grew 5.47 million tonnes of Better Cotton.

Today Better Cotton has more than 2,700 members, reflecting the breadth and diversity of the industry. Members of a global community that understands the mutual benefits of sustainable cotton farming. The moment you join, you become part of this too.

The founding premise of Better Cotton is that a healthy sustainable future for cotton and the people that farm it is in the interests of everyone connected with it.

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