Summary
With the aim to train five million farmers and account for 30% of global cotton production by 2020, how can BCI achieve its growth goals while ensuring it “makes cotton production better for the people who produce it, better for the environment, and better for the sector’s future”? A study specifically looking at India and Pakistan, two of the three largest BCI licensed cotton growing regions, sought to find out how BCI has been formulated, how BCI has been implemented and how BCI affects incomes and the environment in this region. The findings from the first two papers published give insights into the current and future challenges for scaling up at speed.