The United States is the largest exporter of cotton in the world, shipping over 3 million tonnes annually. Explore how the ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Uzbekistan’s government has launched an ambitious privatisation programme aimed at reshaping its ...

Cotton sustainability initiative Better Cotton has signed a strategic roadmap with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Agriculture and the Textile and Garment Industry Association (Uztekstilprom).

Uzbekistan has a long tradition in growing cotton. Today, it is among the world’s top 10 producers, with an annual production of about one million tons. The World Bank-administered Multi-Donor Trust ...

Better Cotton has introduced a comprehensive plan called the Roadmap of Sustainability Developments in collaboration with Uzbekistan stakeholders in a bid to drive further improvements within the ...

Elena Urlaeva, head of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan, whose group has conducted monitoring in various regions of Uzbekistan during several cotton harvest seasons, told the Institute for ...

The data was based on the 2021 ILO Third-Party Monitoring Report of the Cotton Harvest in Uzbekistan’.. The country has long been dogged by systemic use of child and forced labour in the cotton ...

According to the UN Comtrade database, in 2021, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan shipped $4 million worth of cotton pulp to Russia. In 2022, the first year of the great war, this figure increased by 150% ...

Uzbekistan is the world's sixth-largest cotton producer and has seen growth in this industry following reforms and the end of an international boycott of Uzbek cotton.

But while Uzbekistan has been lauded for moving away from forced labour, the cotton economy’s insidious influence on regular people’s lives, and, especially, on children’s development and ...

Cotton sustainability initiative Better Cotton has signed a strategic roadmap with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Agriculture and the Textile and Garment Industry Association (Uztekstilprom).