On World Cotton Day (7 October), a recent study for Cotton Made in Africa (CMiA) has shown the positive effects that regular training can have on the lives of small-scale farmers in Africa. The study ...
More than half a billion tons of cotton were certified according to the Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) standard in 2018 – helping to increase the volume of sustainably produced cotton by almost 17% ...
Producers of high-quality textiles are bringing locally-grown cotton and bedsheets back to America. North Alabama’s Red Land Cotton produces its own home-grown cotton on a third-generation family farm ...
Many items of clothing end up damaging the environment in the form of microplastics. But just opting for cotton may not be the answer. We explain how to dress more sustainably. Ethical shopping has ...
It uses a new technique that dissolves fabric and then re-spins the thread, making it even stronger than before. This newest pair of Levi’s started as five old T-shirts. Using a new fabric-recycling ...
Cotton-based manufacturing in the UK has experienced a resurgence during the last few years on the back of growing demand for Made in Britain product, but the missing piece of the jigsaw has been ...
American cotton producers express anger when retailers tout Portuguese and other foreign cotton while domestic farmers ...
Traces of cotton sourced from the Chinese province of Xinjiang have been found in clothes made by Adidas, Puma and Hugo Boss by German researchers. The major fashion brands have denied sourcing cotton ...