Texas A&M AgriLife Research has reached a major milestone in increasing the value of cotton, marking the initial step toward ...

Better Cotton Uzbekistan Programme country manager Katerina Gorbunova said: “This roadmap signals that there is much more to come from Better Cotton in Uzbekistan. Together with our partners, we ...

Uzbekistan just had its annual cotton fair. During the October 12-13 event in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, Uzbekistan reported that it had signed contracts to sell some 550,000 tons of cotton and ...

Uzbekistan has made important strides in reducing the use of forced labor in its cotton sector but has yet to eliminate it completely, according to new research released this week.

Tag Uzbekistan cotton industry When Development Finance Does More Harm than Good: The Case of Indorama Agro in Uzbekistan By Lynn Schweisfurth, Caitlin Daniel, and Nina Lesikhina ...

A girl picks cotton in Uzbekistan's Tashkent Province in September 2010. The ILO monitors will be looking for signs of forced or child labor. Print ...

Cotton Campaign says too early to lift Uzbek boycott By Reuters April 16, 202010:57 AM PDTUpdated April 16, 2020 ...

Cotton fields in Tashkent region, October 26, 2020. Credit: Elyor Nematov After 10 years of monitoring and reporting on forced child and adult labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton sector, cataloging the ...

Cotton accounted for 11 percent of Uzbekistan’s export earnings in 2011, according to a report by the Responsible Sourcing Network lobby group. Uzbekistan has been the target of a sustained campaign ...

Europe Uzbekistan Aims to End Forced Labor in Cotton Fields Soviet-era holdover has displaced people from their jobs at harvest time, hurt exports as big brands shun the industry ...

LONDON—-Western buyers are pressuring Uzbekistan, a major producer and exporter of cotton, to prove it is ending the use of child labor in its trade of the agricultural commodity.

For the first time, cotton traders have declared themselves ready to work against child labor in Uzbekistan, and to enter into dialogue with civil society organizations about the situation in the ...