| Description: | A selection of relevant irrigation resources available on the Internet. |
| Author: | Jens Soth, Organic & Fairtrade Competence Center |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | This is the summary of the e-discussion about "seed availability for organic cotton production" (10th November - 1st December 2009) in French and English. |
| File: | Download file (28415 Bytes) |
| Author: | Andrea Bischof, Organic & Fairtrade Competence Center |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Discussion paper about suicides of Indian farmers. A case study on the potential link between technological choices and farmer suicides in India. Although officially recognized for having increased production and farmers’ income, Bt cotton, genetically-modified, insect-resistant cotton, remains highly controversial in India. |
| File: | Download file (501124 Bytes) |
| Author: | IFPRI Guillaume P. Gruère, Purvi Mehta-Bhatt, Debdatta Sengupta |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | In this article an Indian organic farmer and seed breeder argues that it is crucial for farmers to retain control over seeds, particularly in light of the increasing corporate grip on seeds, so as to restore agricultural biodiversity. |
| File: | Download file (1167284 Bytes) |
| Author: | Third World Resurgence no. 230 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | The aim of this guide is to support organizers of organic cotton projects in designing and setting up organic cotton production with smallholders, or in re-thinking existing projects. Recognizing that there are many possible ways and approaches in doing this, the guide wants to stimulate reflection and provide ideas rather than giving final answers and prescriptions. The guide does not deal with the processing of the cotton fibre and the trade of cotton products. |
| File: | Download file (1793302 Bytes) |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects, Fair Trade, Farming Aspects, Control & Certification, Rotation crops |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | The handbook ”Sustainable cotton on the shelves” is a hands-on manual that is meant to help mainstream retailers to decide on, to source and to market sustainable cotton. Through concrete questions and straightforward answers, the handbook provides an overview of issues and trends in the production and marketing of sustainable cotton. The handbook ”Sustainable cotton on the shelves” is the outcome of a project run in the Netherlands by the retailers HEMA and de Bijenkorf, the Dutch association for large textile retailers (VGT), the NGOs Oxfam Novib and WWF, and the consultancy CREM. |
| Country: | http://www.crem.nl/main.php?page=266 |
| Author: | Pascale Guillou, CREM |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects, Trade & Markets, Fair Trade, Farming Aspects, Control & Certification, Value chain |
| Submitted by: | Guillou pascale |
| Description: | A recent scientific study carried out by Navdanya, compared the soil of fields where Bt-cotton had been planted for 3 years with adjoining fields with non GMO cotton or other crops. The region covered included Nagpur, Amravati and Wardha of Vidharbha which accounts for highest GMO cotton planting in India, and the highest rate of farmers suicides (4000 per year). |
| Country: | http://www.i-sis.org.uk/BtCottonKillsSoilandFarmers.php |
| Author: | Navdanya |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | In this catalogue 17 innovations for improving irrigation technologies in Kyrgyzstan are presented. The ideas for the technologies come from farmers and specialists from Kyrgyzstan, and from other countries. This document gives an overview, what possibilities farmers have to improve irrigation practices, with the objective to use natural resources more sustainable and at the same time to increase economical profit. |
| File: | Download file (3635045 Bytes) |
| Author: | Lydia Pluess, Christoph Studer, Roza Bekboeva, Talant Kadyraliev, |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects, Farming Aspects, Rotation crops |
| Submitted by: | Jens Soth |
| Description: | Summary of an impact study conducted by the University of Berne on the organic and fairtrade cotton project supported by Helvetas in Burkina Faso. |
| File: | Download file (613435 Bytes) |
| Author: | Helvetas / CDE |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects, Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Chincha - Peru (empresa Oro Blanco) costa centro sur peruana |
| File: | Download file (1728896 Bytes) |
| Author: | Organic Exchange, Alfonso Lizzaraga |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | The aim of this report is to assess the ‘water footprint’ of worldwide cotton consumption, entifying both the location and the character of the impacts. |
| File: | Download file (1672055 Bytes) |
| Author: | UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Procedure to estimate yields and harvests in organic cotton production for traceability and forecasting total production; based on the discussion in the Global Organic Cotton Community |
| File: | Download file (38912 Bytes) |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn, OFTCC |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Summary of the CoP discussion on harvest estimates in cotton, July-August 2009 |
| File: | Download file (11456 Bytes) |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn, OFTCC |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Template to develop a product description sheet that can be used to inform buyers about an organic product (e.g. cotton) on offer in an attractive way. The template contains the essential parameters a potential client needs to know. |
| File: | Download file (49152 Bytes) |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn, OFTCC |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Trade & Markets |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | This is the summary of the online discussion within the Global Organic Cotton Community about „How can we achieve that supply of organic cotton will match demand in this season 2009/10, and also in future?” The discussion took place from 22 June – 17th July 2009. |
| File: | Download file (34466 Bytes) |
| Author: | Andrea Bischof, Organic & Fairtrade Competence Center |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Trade & Markets |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | A review of crops grown in rotation or as part of the organic cotton farm system |
| Author: | Organic Exchange |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Rotation crops |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | The material flow perspective of organic cotton brings a lot of opportunities for companies to substantiate their credibility. Thus a clear target setting for the organic cotton material flow could bring in quantifiable indicators into either the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities or in the environmental (ISO14000ff) or social management system (SA 8000, AA 1000). |
| File: | Download file (47496 Bytes) |
| Author: | Jens Soth, Organic & Fairtrade Competence Center of Helvetas |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Trade & Markets, Value chain |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Different pulses that are grown in rotation with cotton, displayed in a market in India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects, Rotation crops |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Meeting of organic cotton farmers in Burkina Faso |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects, Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Cajanus cajan, a typical rotation crop of cotton in India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Rotation crops |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Cotton baling, bioRe India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Processing |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Roll-ginners in the ginning factory of bioRe India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Processing |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Heaps of organic raw cotton (seed cotton), bioRe project, India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects, Processing |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Red cotton stainer nymphs, India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Covering compost heap with mud layer; bioRe project, India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Setting up a compost heap, bioRe project, India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Ingredients for preparing compost, bioRe project, India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Low-cost drip systems in cotton, bioRe project, India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Bullock-drawn weeder in cotton in India (bioRe project) |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | series of cotton bud, flower, pods, boll in India |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Designed primarily as a reference manual for extension workers and farmers, the Organic Cotton Crop Guide provides comprehensive practical know-how on organic cotton production in the tropics. The guide covers all relevant aspects from soil preparation and variety selection over crop nutrition and pest management to the economic performance of organic cotton farming. |
| Country: | http://www.organiccotton.fibl.org |
| File: | Download file (1967354 Bytes) |
| Author: | FiBL / Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects, Farming Aspects, Processing, Rotation crops |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Simplified form for internal inspections of (cotton) farms |
| File: | Download file (148480 Bytes) |
| Author: | Lazare Yombi / Frank Eyhorn, Helvetas |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects, Control & Certification |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Typical content of an operating manual covering the organisational set-up, main processes and ICS of a producer organisation or company. |
| File: | Download file (30720 Bytes) |
| Author: | Frank Eyhorn, Helvetas |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects, Control & Certification |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | List of possible non-conformities with regard to internal regulations of cotton farms, with a respective system of sanctions (example from West-Africa). |
| File: | Download file (90112 Bytes) |
| Author: | Lazare Yombi / Frank Eyhorn, Helvetas |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects, Control & Certification |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | A simple form for farmers and extension workers to record farm activity data for a specific crop (as part of the Internal Control System). |
| File: | Download file (80384 Bytes) |
| Author: | Lazare Yombi / Frank Eyhorn, Helvetas |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects, Control & Certification |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | A simplified form to enter farm profile data, as part of the Internal Control System (ICS). |
| File: | Download file (102912 Bytes) |
| Author: | Lazare Yombi / Frank Eyhorn |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects, Control & Certification |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | This simple excel-based tool helps you to plan production figures, costs and revenues over a period of time, and to calculate cost prices of your organic cotton and rotation crops. The tables need to be adapted to the respective situation. |
| File: | Download file (50688 Bytes) |
| Author: | Helvetas OFTCC (Frank Eyhorn) |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Trade & Markets, Value chain |
| Submitted by: | Frank Eyhorn |
| Description: | Cotton boll |
| Author: | Helvetas, Switzerland |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Category: | Other |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | G. barbadense |
| Author: | Helvetas |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Category: | Other |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Two closed cotton boll |
| Author: | Helvetas, Switzerland |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Category: | Other |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Blossom of the cotton |
| Author: | Helvetas, Switzerland |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Category: | Other |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Cotton production in the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan represents one of the most exploitative enterprises in the world. Up to one third of the country’s workforce is made to labour on cotton farms; denied ownership of the land they work, and forced to labour without reasonable wages they are unable to opt out of cotton cultivation – those who try are subject to violence, imprisonment and intimidation. Tens of thousands of children are forced to pick the cotton harvest each year. Crucially, the suffering caused by this industry comes at the hands of the government. It is the Uzbek state, not the country’s mafia that instigates the abuses connected to the production and sale of cotton turning its people in to a slave nation. |
| File: | Download file (1971112 Bytes) |
| Author: | Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Template of a memorandum of understandig regarding the partnership on producing and purchasing organic-fairtrade cotton. |
| File: | Download file (23712 Bytes) |
| Author: | Organic & Fairtrade Competence Centre of Helvetas |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Category: | Value chain |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | This document represents the fourth and final output in Phase II of a long-term collaborative effort between the Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO) and the Expert Center for Sustainable Business and Development Cooperation (ECSAD). This collaborative research project entitled Partnerships, Power and Equity in Global Commodity Chains” was initiated in 2004 with as its objective an enhanced understanding of the issues, processes and dynamics related to setting up international commodity chains aimed at improving market access for low-income farmer groups in the Third World. |
| Author: | ECSAD / ICCO, Muller et al. |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Category: | Trade & Markets, Value chain |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Drawing on case studies from Benin, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, this paper argues that organic cotton has much to offer smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. |
| File: | Download file (136353 Bytes) |
| Author: | Ferrigno et al. |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Farming Aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | The fairtrade standards for organic cotton from the Fairtrade Labelling Oragnizations (FLO). Version 2008. |
| File: | Download file (49512 Bytes) |
| Author: | Fairtrade Labelling Oragnizations International |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Control & Certification, Processing |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | The cotton trade has been characterised as a “success story” in the developmental process of African countries. However, the agricultural subsidies that the developed nations provide to their cotton farmers have global trade-distorting effects. Not only do these subsidies reduce the income of the African cotton producers, but they also force them to use cultivation methods that harm the environment. |
| File: | Download file (170612 Bytes) |
| Author: | Submitted by |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Trade & Markets |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Sustainable development project in India Organic and fair trade cotton |
| File: | Download file (4179810 Bytes) |
| Author: | Submitted by |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Designed primarily as a reference manual for extension workers and farmers, the Organic Cotton Crop Guide provides comprehensive practical know-how on organic cotton production in the tropics. The guide covers all relevant aspects from soil preparation and variety selection over crop nutrition and pest management to the economic performance of organic cotton farming. |
| Country: | https://www.fibl-shop.org/english/shop/article/1388-cotton-guide.html |
| Author: | Submitted by |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Control & Certification |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Designed primarily as a reference manual for extension workers and farmers, the Organic Cotton Crop Guide provides comprehensive practical know-how on organic cotton production in the tropics. The guide covers all relevant aspects from soil preparation and variety selection over crop nutrition and pest management to the economic performance of organic cotton farming. |
| Country: | https://www.fibl-shop.org/english/shop/article/1388-cotton-guide.html |
| Author: | Submitted by |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |
| Description: | Abstract: The certified organic cotton supply chain is compared to the conventional cotton supply chain in Mali. The most important differences between the two supply chains are highlighted in this study. Switching to organic production may offer a range of potential advantages to cotton farmers, including lower expenses for farm inputs, healthier soils, diverse sources of income, and higher prices. A comparison of the gross margins of both production methods indicates that Mali organic cotton may be able to offer higher gross margins than conventional cotton farming. |
| File: | Download file (379049 Bytes) |
| Author: | Submitted by |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Category: | Environmental & social aspects |
| Submitted by: | Andrea Bischof |