Here, we explore how the cotton supply chain affects farmers across the world, and find out how to help stand up for the people who grow our cotton.

2021年5月18日 · Zach Johnson and Mitchell Hora talk to cotton farmer Adam Chappell of Cotton Plant, Ark. Near-bankruptcy forced him to adopt new practices that saved his farm and changed how he looked at farming.

2025年1月28日 · Modern cotton slaves in 18 countries work for large textile companies and many are children A recent investigation reveals that child exploitation and forced labor are being used to pick cotton on dozens of farms in India.

Southern cotton, picked and processed by American slaves, upheld the wealth and power of the planter elite while it fueled the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution in both the United States and Great Britain. Almost no cotton was grown in the United States in 1790 when the first U.S. Census was conducted.

2022年8月10日 · We will strive to improve the lives and livelihoods of cotton farmers, farm workers and their communities. Through our research and data collection, we see that Better …

2023年9月15日 · In a significant move earlier this year, Better Cotton introduced a new Sustainable Livelihoods Principle as part of our revised standard – the Principles and Criteria (P&C). This bold step aims to make cotton farming economically viable for all, with a special focus on smallholders and medium farms.

2019年2月28日 · Millions of smallholder farmers grow around 26m tonnes of cotton annually, facing challenges including water scarcity, pest pressure and unstable markets. Many live in poverty and lack access to the knowledge, tools and equipment to raise their yields or improve working conditions.

With the invention of the cotton gin in 1794, and the emergence of steam power three decades later, cotton became the common person’s commodity, the product with which the United States could expand westward, producing and reproducing Thomas Jefferson’s vision of an idyllic republic of small farmers—a nation in control of its land ...

With the invention of the cotton gin in 1794, and the emergence of steam power three decades later, cotton became the average man’s commodity, the product with which the United States could expand westward, producing and reproducing Thomas Jefferson’s idyllic yeoman republic—a nation in control of its land, reaping the benefits of honest ...

Advances in steam power and water travel revolutionized southern farmers’ and planters’ ability to deseed and bundle their products and move them to ports popping up along the Atlantic seaboard. Indeed, by the end of the 1830s, cotton had become the primary crop not only of the southwestern states but of the entire nation.