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19.01.2012Update: CmiA criteria revised
To further improve the positive impact of its Cotton made in Africa Initiative (CmiA), the Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) together with its stakeholders has revised the CmiA verification criteria.
17.10.2011 5. Cotton made in Africa and COMPACI Stakeholder Conference in Livingstone, Zambia
The cotton family grows even closer
23.09.2011BCI and CmiA sign MoU
The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) have today, 23 September 2011, signed a MoU. This MoU sets out the intention of both organisations to develop a partnership, under which Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) can be sold as Better Cotton, and activities of both organisations are coordinated and harmonised. The aspiration is to sign a ‘Partnership Agreement’ by the end...
03.08.2011Famine in East Africa
The most devastating drought for decades has taken hold in the Horn of Africa. In some regions in the south of Somalia there is no longer anything to eat at all; millions of people are fleeing from the threat of starvation. In an interview, Christoph Kaut, Managing Director of the Aid by Trade Foundation, tells us about the situation in East Africa. Mr Kaut, you have often travelled around the...
27.07.2011Cotton made in Africa Verification Report
Please find here the aggregated summary in French and English of the implementation of CmiA exclusion criteria and sustainability criteria at farm level and for ginneries in the five African countries CmiA is working in. Every two years cotton companies and smallholder farmers producing cotton in Cotton made in Africa quality, are verified by independent verification institutes (EcoCert or...
07.07.2011South African design for Europe
CmiA and Tchibo cooperate with young African designer
07.07.2011Muhammad Yunus: “The future belongs to social business”
Initiator of microcredits emphasises the importance of social business ideas like Cotton made in Africa
06.07.2011“Africa needs a new self-awareness”
Züli Aladaĝ makes two films about Cotton made in Africa on behalf of the save our nature foundation
09.06.2011CmiA and SAI* would like to invite you to participate in an upcoming Cotton made in Africa webinar on June 15 and/or June 16
For more information and registration, please see the following:
23.05.2011James Shikwati joins Aid by Trade Foundation Board of Trustees
Renowned economic expert from Kenya assists Social Business initiative
03.05.2011Launch of SUSTAINEO
SUSTAINEO is the name of this strategic initiative which strives for a stronger involvement of global market dynamics in development approaches to enable smallholder farmers in coffee, cocoa and cotton to improve their income and living conditions.
23.05.2011Learning to read and write for sustainable development
Adult literacy project helps smallholders in Burkina Faso
24.03.2011“Polyester is the real enemy of cotton”
Cotton plants are quite unprepossessing and the fluffy white balls provide little indication of the economic importance of the raw material. Every year over 21 million tons of cotton are cultivated and processed throughout the world – hence the nickname “white gold”, as it is sometimes referred to. It is cultivated in huge quantities above all in China, India and the USA. Cotton growers in the...
22.03.2011Welcome to the new Cotton made in Africa website
Relaunch of Cotton made in Africa website in 2011 You will be welcomed by Fahim, one of our cotton farmers from Benin. Fahim, other farmers and their families relate how they benefit personally from the initiative. They are typical of almost 200,000 smallholder farmers represented by Cotton made in Africa. Our main task is to support them and to improve their life and that of their families....
