The roadmap is intended to boost the production of sustainable cotton in the Uzbekistan, which is one of the world’s largest cotton producers. Uzbekistan is unique for its cotton clusters ...

Uzbekistan is one of the few cotton-growing countries that has not mechanized the cotton harvest and continues to rely on manual labor to pick cotton. In 2014, the Government of Uzbekistan decided to ...

A coming court verdict on the admissibility of independently verified information could have lasting negative implications for labor rights reporting in Uzbekistan. Privatization of the cotton ...

Today, Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley, once home to travelling caravans of merchants trading in colourful bazaars, is now the location of a thriving textile hub. Uzbekistan textiles have long been ...

Over the last decade, Uzbekistan’s economy has grown steadily and has made ... the World Bank has been actively supporting the diversification of agricultural production beyond cotton and wheat into ...

A man prunes an elm tree in Kazankethen, Uzbekistan. Such drought-tolerant trees still line some of the dry irrigation ditches that once diverted water to enormous cotton farms from the Amu Darya ...