Cotton provides livelihoods for millions worldwide.
From sustainable land and water use to reducing extreme poverty, it plays a vital role in advancing the Global Goals .
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How much cotton goes into the clothes we wear?
Approximately 80% is used in apparel. The rest goes into home textiles and industrial products , connecting cotton farms to many parts of our daily lives. Follow the conversation with the hashtags: #WorldCottonDay
Cotton for Sustainability: Livelihoods, Value Addition and Partnership.
Cotton value addition involves transforming raw cotton fiber and plant by-products into higher-value commercial goods across the supply chain, increasing profitability, creating jobs, and reducing waste. The Pathways for Cotton Value Addition are: Fiber Processing & Textiles : Transforming raw ginned lint into spun yarn, woven or knitted fabrics, and finished garments (such as t-shirts, towels, and denim). Specialty processing like mercerizing (double-treating thread like DMC Stranded Cotton to boost strength and sheen) or manufacturing quilted wadding like Legacy 100% Cotton Wadding with Scrim available at Spotlight . Seed Utilization : Crushing cotton seeds to produce edible cooking oils and high-protein animal feed or protein meals. Using hulls and other seed fractions as livestock nutrition and energy sources. By-Product & Waste Stream Innovation : Converting gin trash (waste left after ginning) into high-value industrial chemicals & Repurposing cotton residues and w...
By developing profitable by-products of cotton such as animal feed and energy, value can be added along the supply chain.
From field to fashion, food & energy — cotton connects us all. It supports 100 million families worldwide, yet only 29% is produced sustainably. Through science, innovation and better policies, we can make the cotton sector fairer and more resilient. #WorldCottonDay @FAO
Día Mundial del Algodón 2026.
El Día Mundial del Algodón fue creado en el 2019 por iniciativa de los países pertenecientes al C-4 (Benín, Burkina Faso, Chad y Malí), en conjunto con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), el Comité Consultivo Internacional del Algodón (ICAC), el Centro de Comercio Internacional (ITC) y la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo (UNCTAD). En agosto de 2021, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas proclamó el 7 de octubre de cada año como Día Mundial del Algodón como reconocimiento a los beneficios únicos de este producto. El objetivo de esta celebración mundial es aumentar la visibilidad del sector algodonero y concienciar sobre el papel fundamental que desempeña en el desarrollo económico, el comercio internacional y la reducción de la pobreza. La edición 2026 se conmemora bajo el lema " Algodón para el bien común: Construyendo prosperidad a través del comercio, la transformación y la colaboración ", q...
Algodón para el bien común construyendo prosperidad a traves del commercio, la transformacion y la colaboracion.
El lema “Algodón para el bien común construyendo prosperidad a través del comercio, la transformación y la colaboración” es el tema central del Día Mundial del Algodón 2026 , conmemorado cada 7 de octubre. La iniciativa busca visibilizar el impacto socioeconómico del sector algodonero y promover el comercio sostenible y la transformación productiva a nivel global . El objetivo es conmemorar el Día Mundial del Algodón 2026 mediante un espacio de diálogo técnico regional que visibilice los avances, desafíos y oportunidades de la cadena de valor algodonera en América Latina y el Caribe, desde la producción hasta el comercio y el trabajo decente
Cotton outlook: News. Data. Analysis.
In this, our sixth Special Feature celebrating World Cotton Day , we take stock of some of the developments that have occurred in the industry in terms of sustainability during the past 12 months. We examine the vital promotion of all that is good about our natural fibre, while highlighting pressing issues such as climate change, pollution, and cotton’s declining market share in the face of polyester and fast fashion . World Cotton Day, marked annually on October 7th , provides an opportunity for all those involved in cotton to not only celebrate the biodegradable, natural fibre that clothes us and provides key employment across the globe, but also to collaborate on how to shape a future in which the environment, biodiversity, and farmers’ and workers’ livelihoods are protected, and where fewer and fewer oil-based synthetic textiles accumulate at waste sites, shedding microplastics that pollute the earth. This year, founding organisations will gather in Rome to mark the occasion...