CmiA developer introduces Regenerative Cotton Standard
20/12/2023
RCS targets the entire cotton production system, as opposed to focusing solely the fibre itself, according to AbTF. The idea is to “improve the overall resilience and productivity of small-scale farming, while adding value to farmland, rural communities [and] the biosphere,” homing in on growers’ own knowledge, it explained.
AbTF said it expected its experience of developing a “successful and credible” system with CmiA to prove beneficial and invited interested parties to attend its cotton conference in Mumbai between March 11 and 13.
Approximately 900,000 farmers across ten African countries grew CmiA-approved fibre in 2022, AbTF reported last summer, with 40% of cotton produced in Africa now verified by the standard.
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