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 BCI 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
If you’re new to the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), welcome! Mass Balance BCI Cotton Claim Units (BCCUs) are a simple way to begin sourcing BCI Cotton. Mass Balance is a chain of custody model that helps us achieve our impact …
Sourcing Physical BCI 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 BCI Cotton: 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 …
Contact Us
The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI)’s head offices are in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Additionally, we have regional offices in China, India, Mozambique, and Pakistan, as well as staff based in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Germany, …
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.
History of the Mass Balance On-Product Mark
You may have seen the BCI logo used on websites, in stores and in sustainability reports. Members invest in BCI and are, in turn, able to use the BCI logo in their marketing.
Our Field Level Results and Impact
BCI uses complementary research and evaluation methods and works with independent organisations and researchers to assess field-level impacts. This diversity of approaches is necessary to effectively measure results and impact both at scale and in depth.
Where BCI Cotton is grown
Displaying the countries where over 1.39 million licensed Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) Farmers are currently located and growing BCI Cotton. Click on the country pins to learn more about each programme country. BCI Cotton is grown across the world, accounting …
Register Now for the Cotton Sustainability Digital Series: Money, Magic, Measurement & Sustainable Agriculture
On Thursday 11 February, BCI will be joined by expert speakers from World Wildlife Fund,ISEAL Alliance, Forum for the FutureandCotton Research and Development Corporationfor a discussion on defining sustainability at the farm level, and the challenge of alignment on common sustainability goals and indicators.