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Cotton and Sustainable Cotton: Key World Commodity
Despite being eclipsed by synthetics, when it comes to fashion cotton is still a key world crop. Global initiatives championing more sustainable cotton produce 30 percent of the world’s cotton.
Cotton has been an important fibre of clothing and textiles for thousands of years across many human cultures. Although synthetics have supplanted cotton in the world fibre market, it remains the second most used apparel fibre, with a 24 percent share of the total global fibre production in 2020.1 It is also the world’s most important non-food crop. Growing, transporting and processing cotton along with other ancillary services involves approximately 350 million people, mainly in lower-income…
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