Celebrate World Cotton DayOctober 4, 2023, 9:00-18:00 (Vienna time)
Register for our in-person and online event entitled “Making cotton a fair and sustainable crop for all, from farm to fashion”. It will reveal the importance of this sector, as well as the relevance of its growth in a sustainable and inclusive way, guaranteeing decent work for all.
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World Cotton Day, an idea that started thanks to the “Cotton Four”
The initiative of World Cotton Day was born in 2019, when four cotton producers in sub-Saharan Africa– Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, known as the Cotton Four -proposed the World Trade Organization a World Cotton Day celebration on October 7.
During 2 consecutive years, the date offered an opportunity to share knowledge and showcase cotton-related activities.
Now that the United Nations has officially recognized this World Cotton Day, this great opportunity creates awareness of the need of market access for cotton and cotton-related products from least developed countries, fosters sustainable trade policies and enables developing countries to benefit more from every step of the cotton value chain.
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A rules-based, non-discriminatory, open, fair, inclusive, predictable and transparent international cotton trading system is key to provide a livelihood to hundreds of millions of vulnerable people around the globe.
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Besides, greater investments are needed to expand the sector beyond raw cotton production and create new income opportunities, especially for farmers, by adding more value to cotton fibre and developing by-products from other parts of the cotton plant.
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