The Importance of Working with Cotton
Charlie Bradley Ross
Saturday, 1 May 2021
We've heard how cotton affects millions of people across the world from a host of experts at the World Food Programme, Traidcraft Exchange and the GVK Society for Rural Development. In this 9-minute Lesson, we bring together the key clips from these conversations and delve into the reasons working with cotton has a positive impact in terms of providing employment and contributing to socio-economic development when done in the right way.
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In this video you'll learn:
- About cotton's decline in recent decades as it competes with synthetic fibres and the global socio-economic impact of this
- How to empower small farming communities to gain a market foothold
- About common misconceptions of cotton farming, including its water consumption and social impacts
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