Cotton Made in Africa (CmiA) has launched a program in Tanzania to monitor cotton fields using satellite-supported remote sensing. It follows India, which launched a similar program in the spring.

Under the partnership with Cotton made in Africa, they aim to promote sustainable cotton cultivation, protect the environment, and improve the working and living conditions of small-scale farmers and ...

Initiated three years prior, the initiative was established to assist smallholder farmers in Benin to make the switch to organic cotton farming under the Cotton made in Africa Organic (CmiA Organic) ...

BURKINA FASO: In 2000, farmers in Burkina Faso, Africa’s top cotton grower, were desperate. Their cotton fetched top prices because its high-quality fibre lent a luxurious sheen to clothing and ...

An international team of researchers are challenging conventional wisdom that the more competitive a market is, the more successful it will be, in the current edition of World Development. The study ...

The days of foreigners managing vast plantations, highlighted in movies such as Out of Africa, have long gone. buying the harvest, and China's largest agricultural company in Africa is now making ...

KORHOGO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Without pausing to wipe the sweat from their brows, workers in northern Ivory Coast picked cotton by the handful - a crop saved by the use of extra insecticides after ...

Across the African continent, around 20 million people grow cotton, producing 3 million tonnes each year, often using simple tools and methods. African cotton is considered high quality, partly ...

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Burkina Faso has asked Bayer CropScience to help produce genetically modified cotton even as the government decided to stop planting a variety introduced by Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed ...