Cotton farming impacts biodiversity and land use in many ways. Find out how Better Cotton helps farmers restore the environments on and around their farms through sustainable farming practices like Integrated Pest Management and a High Conservation Value approach.
The Better Cotton Türkiye programme launched in 2013 to help Turkish cotton farmers with issues like poor working conditions and water scarcity.
The Better Cotton team includes more than 200 individuals from diverse cultures, countries and backgrounds. We’re passionate about what we do and dedicated to achieving the Better Cotton mission: to help cotton communities survive and thrive, while protecting and restoring …
Today is International Women’s Day 2021, a global event to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. At the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), we are celebrating women’s achievements by sharing inspiring stories from the field, reflecting on …
The Better Cotton programme in Pakistan is helping farmers adapt to extreme heat, unpredictable weather patterns and earn more for their cotton through targeted, on-the-ground training.
We spoke with The Renewal Workshop about the demand for circular business models, barriers to change, and the potential impacts on cotton production.
Circular business models are on the rise in the apparel and textile industry, but how will this impact the cotton sector and cotton farmers in particular? Historically, businesses have followed a ‘take-make-waste’ linear model. Beyond consumer use, there have been few systems …
The Better Cotton USA programme launched in 2014. It helps farmers throughout the US Cotton Belt combat issues like drought and herbicide resistance.
Collaboration is essential to delivering the Better Cotton programme across the world. That’s why we’ve developed an extended network of on-the-ground Programme Partners, to help cotton farming communities to adopt more sustainable practices. These partners are critical to our success. …
The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) engages and brings together the entire cotton sector, from farmers, ginners and spinners to civil society organisations and major global retailers and brands, to establish more sustainable cotton as the norm.
Do you want to know what the largest cotton sustainability programme in the world is up to? Keep up to date with the latest developments and hear from Better Cotton Farmers, Partners and Members in the new Better Cotton Quarterly …
