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The cotton plant produces a boll, or protective casing, which is made of the soft, fluffy staple fibre known as cotton. One of the most significant commercial crops is cotton. It is one of the most important agricultural crops in the world.
It is manufactured cheaply and in great supply. Pure cellulose fibre, cotton is most frequently spun into yarn or thread to create textiles.
The Europe cotton market accounted for $XX Billion in 2021 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2022 to 2030.
Better Cotton Europe introduces the Delta Framework. In order to quantify sustainability across the cotton and coffee commodity sectors, Better Cotton has introduced the Delta Framework, an uniform collection of environmental, social, and economic indicators.
A grant from the ISEAL Innovations Fund, which is funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, allowed for the creation of the Delta Framework (SECO).
Major sustainability standard organisations from the cotton and coffee industries are project collaborators. Better Cotton, the Global Coffee Platform (GCP), the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), and the International Coffee Association are the founding organisations (ICO).
According to a press release from Better Cotton, the Delta Framework was created over the course of three years through cross-sector collaboration with the goal of producing a consolidated and uniform way to measure and report the progress of farms taking part in sustainable commodity certification programmes or other sustainable agriculture initiatives.
Along with suggestions on how private or public entities can effectively use the framework and teach their stakeholders about sustainability, the Framework is also complemented by examples of best practices, methodology, and tools to encourage stakeholders to embrace and apply it.
Key sustainability metrics and guidance materials were agreed upon by the cross-sector programme after rigorous testing by Project participants and other stakeholders. As a result, eight sustainable cotton standards, programmes, and codes agreed to harmonise on impact measurement and reporting by signing a Memorandum of Understanding.
Each participant has pledged to develop a unique timetable for gradually incorporating pertinent Delta indicators into their own monitoring, assessment, and reporting systems. Along with making it simpler to record success, the framework offers a chance to create cross-sector services to address farmers’ issues and challenges.
