{"id":8460,"date":"2024-10-18T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T10:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/cotton-benins-white-gold\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T10:10:34","slug":"cotton-benins-white-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/cotton-benins-white-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton, Benin&#8217;s white gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Association Interprofessionnel du Coton du B\u00e9nin signs partnership agreement with Better Coton<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Association Interprofessionnelle du Coton du B\u00e9nin (AIC) will play a key role as a strategic partner for Better Cotton. AIC oversees the cotton harvesting and ginning structures, and facilitates relations with the industry&#8217;s stakeholders in Benin. This strategic partnership will strengthen engagement with farming communities and other stakeholders.  <\/p>\n<p>Eustache Kotingan, President of AIC, said: &#8220;The launch of Better Cotton in Benin is a national initiative. It will enable our producers to strengthen their resilience through more sustainable practices.&#8221; The agreement was formalized at a meeting in Cotonou on October 8. The two organizations discussed the opportunities and challenges associated with cotton growing. <\/p>\n<h3>An ambitious program to support over 200,000 small cotton growers<\/h3>\n<p>Better Cotton continues its expansion in West Africa with the launch of a new program in Benin. The aim is to promote more sustainable cotton production in the region. Over 200,000 small-scale cotton farmers will be involved in adopting sustainable farming practices. The program aims to improve their livelihoods while helping them adapt to the effects of climate change.   <\/p>\n<p>Lena Staafgard, COO of Better Cotton, said: &#8220;Better Cotton&#8217;s presence in Africa is growing all the time. The movement for more sustainable cotton production is gaining momentum. We will work with new and old partners to maximize the benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Benin, Africa&#8217;s second-largest cotton producer, commits to sustainability<\/h3>\n<hr>\n<p>This new program in Benin joins Better Cotton&#8217;s existing initiatives in Africa, notably in Mozambique, Egypt, Mali and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Read also<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/la-labellisation-du-leppi-une-etape-vers-la-valorisation-des-savoir-faire-guineens\/\">L\u00e9ppi certification: a step towards promoting Guinean know-how<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benin is Africa&#8217;s second-largest cotton producer, just behind Mali. In the 2022\/23 season, the country produced over 580,000 metric tons of cotton, according to official figures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mode-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashiontour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}