Higher yields and less pesticides use in Mozambique
Despite challenges for cotton farmers across the country caused by unpredictable weather conditions BCI farmers achieved 15% higher yields and 6% less pesticides input, resulting in 16% higher profits. The…
IDH has supported the Better Cotton Initiative in numerous ways since 2008. For example, in 2009 IDH brought together a large group of brand, retailers and investors to form the Better Cotton…
IDH and BCI are strategic partner to the BCI Growth & Innovation Fund – with IDH providing the fund management services, in addition to IDH’s role as a public funder.
Every year IDH publishes the End of Year Report, presenting the key progress and impact figures of the IDH cotton projects worldwide. End of Year Report…
True Price and IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, have released a series of reports on the True Price of commodities in an area of production. The investigation compares external costs…
Turkey is one of the largest cotton trading hubs in the world. Cotton is an important crop in Turkey, where there is a large domestic textile industry that relies on…
Better Cotton Growth and Innovation Fund – Tajikistan
Tajikistan is the first country in Central Asia working with the Better Cotton Initiative. It is an important region for the Fund as cotton industry supports over half the rural…
Better Cotton Growth and Innovation Fund – Pakistan
Pakistan is the fourth largest cotton producer in the world. More than 1.5 million farmers are engaged in cotton farming in the country. It has the third-largest spinning capacity in…
Mali is the second largest cotton producer in Africa contributing 8 percent to the GDP, and 25 percent to the total export value. Nearly forty percent of the rural population…