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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.
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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.
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Better Cotton 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 organisation’s approach to more sustainable cotton production and establish the …
Supplier Training Programme: English
This Supplier Training Programme (STP) is designed to help suppliers understand Better Cotton's mission, learn about the Better Cotton Chain of Custody Guidelines which is based on mass-balance administration, and familiarise themselves with the Better Cotton Platform. A more technical focus on the business of Better Cotton.
Better Cotton Trials Innovative Traceability Solutions in India
Digital and physical traceability solutions from Retraced, TextileGenesis, Haelixa, and Tailorlux are currently being tested to determine the best way to establish greater transparency across cotton supply chains Better Cotton is piloting innovative traceability technologies from Retraced, TextileGenesis, Haelixa and …
Supplier Training Programme: English
Better Cotton's Supplier Training Programme (STP) is designed to help suppliers understand our mission, learn about the Better Cotton Chain of Custody Guidelines which is based on mass-balance administration, and familiarise themselves with the Better Cotton Platform. A more technical focus on the business of Better Cotton.
Maxine Bédat, Director of New Standard Institute, Announced as Keynote Speaker for Better Cotton Conference 2023
Better Cotton today announces that Maxine Bédat, Founder and Director of New Standard Institute (NSI), will give a keynote speech on the theme of Traceability and Data at the Better Cotton Conference 2023, taking place in Amsterdam on 21 and …
To Move the Needle We Need to Measure Sustainability Impact, Not Just Tick Boxes
By Alan McClay, CEO, Better Cotton. This article was first published by Reuters on 4 April 2023. Sustainability is no longer the sideshow of mainstream business, to be wheeled out by the chief executive at conferences and then sent off …
Impact Targets
Better Cotton’s five Impact Targets underpin the organisation’s 2030 Strategy and map out how we will measure and communicate progress as we drive transformational changes at the field level. Born out of years of consultation with our partners and experts, each target …
2030 Vision: Better Cotton Impact Targets Highlight Bold Ambitions
By Emma Dennis, Senior Manager of Global Impact, Better Cotton For 350 million people around the world, cotton is a way of life. From Brazil to Australia, the US to India, its production is the bedrock of an entire industry …
Supplier Training Programme (STP) Portuguese – All about the Better Cotton Platform
Este treinamento será realizado especificamente para todos os assuntos relacionados à plataforma Better Cotton.
Better Cotton Launches New 2030 Impact Targets
The Impact Targets form part of Better Cotton’s 2030 Strategy and will help drive environmental and social improvements at the field-level for millions of farmers and farm workers Better Cotton today announced four new Impact Targets covering Soil Health, Women’s …
US Cotton Connections: Better Cotton & Quarterway Cotton Growers Field Trip
Join the Better Cotton US team, Quarterway Cotton Growers, ECOM, and Soil Health Institute in the cotton fields of Plainview, Texas, July 20-21, 2023. The goal of this field trip is to bring Better Cotton Members to meet with Quarterway …
Better Cotton strengthens ties with Tajikistan
Better Cotton has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tajikistan’s 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 …