WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and FIFA President Gianni Infantino unveiled the ‘Partenariat pour le Coton’, a new brand aimed at strengthening the WTO-FIFA cotton partnership and supporting African countries’ participation in cotton value chains. They also called on the public and
Cotton producing countries of Africa called on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to find a solution to cotton trade distortion caused by other countries. Four cotton producing countries Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad, named the C4, called for an end to cotton subsidies being given to farmers in the US, India and China as […]
Despite East Africa having a massive capacity to produce cotton textiles and garments thanks, to availability of raw materials and a workforce, the region scores relatively low in consumption of local textile products. According to the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 70 percent of Kenyan garment manufacturing companies sell about 80 […]