- Who we are
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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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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.
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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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How We Measure and Evaluate Impact Better Cotton employs diverse research methods, collaborating with independent organisations and researchers to assess field-level impacts comprehensively. This approach ensures effective measurement of results and impacts at both scale and depth. Research Third parties, …
Communicating About Better Cotton: Our Claims Framework
Find out how the Better Cotton Claims Framework helps Better Cotton members communicate about their commitments in a compelling and accurate way.
Connecting Supply & Demand: Chain of Custody
The Better Cotton Chain of Custody (CoC) tracks Better Cotton as it moves through the supply chain and drives demand for sustainable practices worldwide.
Compliance & Continuous Improvement: Farm-Level Assurance Programme
A strong assurance system is an essential part of any sustainability programme. Find out what makes the Better Cotton approach to assurance unique.
Sourcing Better Cotton
A strong assurance system is an essential part of any sustainability programme. Find out what makes the Better Cotton approach to assurance unique.
Sourcing With Mass Balance
A strong assurance system is an essential part of any sustainability programme. Find out what makes the Better Cotton approach to assurance unique.
Sourcing Physical Better Cotton
A strong assurance system is an essential part of any sustainability programme. Find out what makes the Better Cotton approach to assurance unique.
Defining ‘Better’: Our Principles and Criteria
Discover the seven guiding principles that define Better Cotton and help Better Cotton farmers produce more sustainably.
Strategic Partners
Reaching millions of cotton farmers and supporting them to farm in ways that protect and restore the environment requires strong partnerships and collaboration at every level. Working with our Strategic Partners – partners who either implement the Better Cotton programme …
Partners
Reaching millions of farmers, workers and their communities to improve the way they grow cotton can only happen with direct, field-level support. This requires partnership, collaboration and local knowledge. It’s why over the last decade we’ve built a network of …
Contact Us
Better Cotton’s head offices are in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Additionally, we have regional offices in China, India and Pakistan, as well as staff based in Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Germany, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Spain, Sweden, …
Training Farmers: Capacity Strengthening
The Better Cotton Capacity Building Programme is the backbone of the Better Cotton Standard System. Through the programme, Better Cotton Implementing partners train more than 2.3 million cotton farmers around the world on how to grow cotton more sustainably and improve their livelihoods.