Innovative Business Through Textile Re-Use In The Backyard Garment Sector
Maveen Pereira
Friday, 1 January 2021
Traidcraft Exchange's research, funded with the help of TRAID, into the informal garment industry in Bangladesh offers an insightful vision of the potential to reduce textile waste and increase creative income for local entrepreneurs in a country where the global ready-made garment sector dominates the economy. In this Lesson, you'll learn more about the backyard garment industry in Bangladesh.
This is a segment cut from a full interview with Maveen Pereira, Director of Programmes at Traidcraft Exchange.
In this Lesson you will learn:
- About the role of the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh and its impact on its citizens and the environment
- How a secondary informal garment sector operates alongside the main factories in the country
- How Traidcraft Exchange's research supports female garment workers, local economies and textile waste reduction initiatives
- The potential of this research for wider applications within the global textile and fashion industry
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Advocating For Women's Rights In Cotton Farming
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Traidcraft Exchange's strategy for women's empowerment addresses the fact that women make up a significant part of our global workforce head-on. Here we learn about why women's rights should be advocated for, and why in particular, within the cotton agriculture sector.
This is a segment cut from the full interview with Maveen Pereira, Director of Programmes at Traidcraft Exchange.