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Better Cotton To Scale Up Sustainable Production In Africa

Textile Insights May 2, 2024

Better Cotton will conduct sustainability mapping and assessments in West and Central Africa to enhance its understanding of the needs of farmers in the region and identify context-specific interventions. Funded by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), these assessments will inform ways

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Cotton Output To Be Up 33% In Three West African Countries

Textile Insights December 21, 2023

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in its latest report has indicated that cotton production in three key cotton producing West African countries is expected to be 2.06 million bales, up 33 percent year on year. Cotton output in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Senegal is forecast to rise in the 2023-24 season, although cotton acreage […]

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Better Cotton Programme To Support Chad Farmers

Textile Insights November 23, 2023

Cotontchad, a Chad based aggregator and exporter of cotton convened a multi-stakeholder event in Chad to explore the potential for a Better Cotton Programme. Better Cotton, Cotontchad, and IDH gathered key stakeholders from Chad’s cotton industry in the country’s capital, N’Djamena, to discuss the potential for the launch of a new Better Cotton Programme. The […]

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Better Cotton To Support 200,000 Farmers In Côte d’Ivoire

Textile Insights November 20, 2023

Better Cotton has started a new programme in the West African country of Côte d’Ivoire and committed to support 200,000 domestic cotton farmers in its first five years. The new field-level programme will offer training and resources to farming communities across the country, a first step towards helping them produce more sustainable cotton. The Professional […]

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CmiA Using Remote Sensing Satellite For Producing Cotton

Textile Insights October 13, 2023

The Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) project is exploiting the potential of satellite-based remote sensing for sustainable cotton production. This process for obtaining soil and vegetation information, also known as remote sensing, has become increasingly important in agriculture worldwide in recent years. It makes it possible to increase the efficiency, productivity and

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FIFA Commits To Support African Farmers On World Cotton Day

Textile Insights October 6, 2023

World Football Body FIFA said the World Cotton Day celebrated on October 4, has a special significance for FIFA as it continues working with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to explore how football can help small farmers, many of them women, in the Cotton 4 (plus) countries in Africa. Last year, FIFA signed a Memorandum […]

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CmiA Verified Cotton Output Jumps By 80,000 Tons In 2022

Textile Insights August 18, 2023

Around 240,000 tons of Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) cotton was processed in 2022, or 80,000 tons more over the previous year. According to Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF), 890 million textile products were also brought to market under the CmiA label, by various CmiA licensing brand partners in 2022. This helped generate licensing revenues […]