Browsing: Better Cotton

• Better Cotton aims to support 200,000 cotton farmers across Côte d’Ivoire in the first five years.
• The Professional Association of Cotton Companies of Côte d’Ivoire will oversee the upskilling of farmers.
• Earlier this year, Better Cotton convened stakeholders in Abidjan to discuss sustainability in agriculture in Côte d’Ivoire.

Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has launched a new program in Côte d’Ivoire and committed to supporting 200,000 domestic cotton farmers in its first five years.

The new field-level program will offer training and resources to farming communities across the country, representing a crucial step toward helping them produce more sustainable cotton.

Before the outbreak of civil war in 2002, Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s leading cocoa producer, held a prominent position among Africa’s major cotton exporters. The cotton sector, which had experienced a significant decline in production due to years of political unrest, had been on a path …