Category: Human rights

Biological pest control in cotton cultivation is already widespread in Tanzania and will also be an important issue in Côte d’Ivoire. Read the most interesting results in German and English. Ben Sekamatte, a long-standing agricultural expert and consultant to cotton

The Supply Chain Act is a major step forward, but in some cases it brings with it unnecessary bureaucracy. Roger Peltzer explains how all the objectives of the Supply Chain Act can be achieved with less bureaucracy by benchmarking against proven and recognized sustainability standards.

Cotton sustainability standards like the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), Cotton Made in Africa (CmiA), Fairtrade and Organic Cotton should take initiative to gradually achieve a living income for “their” certified smallholder cotton farmers. The following English article designs a pragmatic way, how this objective can be achieved.

Microfinance from small beginnings 25 years ago to a network of 120 cooperative banks with 120 million euros in total assets today. Justin Bomda, CEO of the MUFID cooperative banks, comments in an interview with “Weltsichten”. In particular, it also shows that the cooperative banks in Cameroon are financed from savings deposits and not through international foreign currency loans, which have to be repaid with interest. They can therefore offer their members moderate interest rates so that they do not run the risk of falling into a debt trap.

In Africa, cotton is mainly grown in regions that are particularly exposed to the consequences of climate change, that are among the poorest regions in their respective countries and that are now often exposed to a high degree of insecurity