Three important programs aimed at improving cotton farming practices and/or helping cotton farmers and their communities are outlined below:

- Organic cotton emphasizes the elimination of synthetic pesticides and fertilisers.

- Fairtrade cotton focuses on guaranteeing a minimum price and providing a fair trade premium for social community-based projects.

- Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) will focus on the most relevant areas of social and environmental impacts with an aim to affect bulk cotton commodity production.

 

In addition to sharing a common goal of shifting an increasing share of cotton production to environmentally and socially more sustainable systems, all of these programs offer mutual support by:

- Promoting better farming practices and building capacity

 Promoting access to market

- Making efforts to improve social conditions of farmers

- Having the potential to positively impact farming communities

- Promoting healthy soil

 

last update: 5 Oct. 09