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- OE response to contamination claims in Financial Times of Germany article, 24th January 2010
- From Fashion to Sustainability - World Congress on Organic Cotton, in Interlaken, Switzerland, 21 - 25 September 2009
- The new Web Platform of the Global Organic Cotton Community www.organiccotton.org has been launched and registration is open for the first online dialogues scheduled for june 22, 2009.
- Organic cotton market outlook, EcoTextile News, 18th March 2009
- Victoria's secret presents its new collection made from Burkinabe organic cotton
- WEST AFRICA: Can organic cotton save the industry? IRIN News, 17th February 2009
- Organic cotton supply outstrips demand EcoTextile Newsletter, 20th January 2009
- Cotton subsidies and non-sustainable production in West and Central Africa, Rural 21, 05/2008 (170kb)
- Comparing conventional and certified organic cotton supply chains: the case of Mali, Int. J. Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Vol. 7 No.3, 2008 (380kb)
- European faire trade congress in Lyon (1 – 3 february 2008)
- Organic cotton offers hope to Mali farmers, swissinfo, 12th December 2007
- "Tapping into social conscience", about the Helvetas cotton projects in Burkina Faso, Financial Times, 18th September 2007 (pdf 204kb).
- New book: Organic farming for sustainable livelihoods in developing countries? The case of cotton in India
Drawing on 3 years of research on organic cotton farms in central India, this book assesses the potential and the constraints of organic farming for improving rural livelihoods.
- Burkinabe Cotton Sector Nears Bankrupcy, VOANews.com, 26th January 2007 (pdf 33kb)
- Marks & Spencer, as partner of the Helvetas organic cotton project in Mali, was one of the three nominated enterprises for the “Public Eye Positive Award” at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland. Coop won the first price for its label “Naturaplan”. January 2007.
- Conference on green and social textile procurement of large-scale consumers on November 30th, 2006 in Zürich
- EvB-Campaign against Paraquat, a higly toxic pesticide which is major risk for farmers and the environment in developing countries. More information: www.evb.ch / www.paraquat.ch
- Most recent article about the market situation for organic cotton, NZZ am Sonntag, 23rd April 2006, german (pdf 871kb)
- Article about the situation of cotton farmers in India, Tages-Anzeiger, 27th June 2006, german (pdf 804 kb)
- Organic cotton as considerable factor in conflict prevention, Article about Central Asia's destructive monoculture, International Crisis Group, February 2005 (pdf 997kb)
- Organic cotton helps fight the greenhouse effect, Partnerschaft Nr. 185m - german, August 2006, p. 20 - 22 (pdf 2.5 mb).
- Secondary pests on GM cotton in China, Cornell University, July 2006
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