Today, the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) shared in our 2020 Annual Report that Better Cotton – cotton produced in line with the initiative’s Better Cotton Principles and Criteria by licensed BCI Farmers – now accounts for 23% of global cotton …
The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) is delighted to be partnering with the FAO Global Soil Partnership to promote sustainable soil management. Soil health is one of the seven Better Cotton Principles and Criteria, which lay out the global definition of …
Our mission at the Better Cotton Initiative is to make global cotton production better for the people who produce it, better for the environment it grows in and better for the sector’s future. We include people in our mission because Better Cotton training doesn’t just impact BCI Farmers alone.
The Israeli cotton sector may be small, but its cotton farmers use some of the world’s most efficient irrigation methods, collaborating effectively to address key sustainability challenges, and growing very high quality, extra-long staple cotton. The Better Cotton Initiative …
Between August 2019 and October 2020, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) funded a BCI programme in Maharashtra, India, to engage approximately 140,000 farmers in the Nandurbar, Chandrapur and Nagpur districts. The programme aimed to promote sustainable environmental …
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India is the world’s largest producer of cotton and cotton is the country’s most important crop. India has been producing cotton for textiles for thousands of years, and today, some 5.8 million farmers make a living from growing cotton with tens of millions of people working in the cotton industry.
Purpose is the demonstration of a business’s positive impact on relevant social and environmental issues, to create value for individuals, the business and wider society.
A step further than sustainability – why communicating purpose is key to success. On Tuesday 11 May, BCI will be joined by Brand Purpose experts, GOOD Agency, as they explore the primary drivers of purpose and unpick the ways …
Cotton farming is a small but thriving industry in Israel. Farmers produce high quality, extra long staple cotton, using high precision, mechanised techniques.
