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Cotton
When you
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Fairtrade cotton you
make sure
know the farmer is
cotton
getting
a fair deal for
farmers
getfind
their
cotton. Lets
out more…
a fair
deal?
Cotton is mainly
grown
indoes
China,
India
Where
cotton
and the grow?
US. It is also
an important crop for
countries in Asia and
Africa.
What does a
cotton plant
look like?
Cotton is in most of the
clothes we wear: socks,
jeans and t-shirts for
example. Towels,
bedding
are
Whatand
do bags
we use
also made
from
cotton.
cotton
for?
Cottonseed oil is also in
products like soap and
cosmetics.
Millions of farmers in
developing countries
aren’t getting a fair
price for the cotton
they grow.
The way the global
market works can
What’s
it like
even
mean
the price
being
a cotton
farmers
sell their
farmer?
cotton
for can be
less than it has cost
them to grow it.
Being a
Fairtrade
farmer
Community has a
borehole thanks to the
Fairtrade Premium
Community has a
medical centre and
midwife thanks to
the Fairtrade
Premium
Children are able to go
to school
“…today all of
my children go
to school.”
Moussa
A Fairtrade cotton farmer
from Mali
“Fairtrade has brought
lots of changes to
women’s lives”
Bintou
A Fairtrade cotton farmer from Mali