choose to support farmers and protect
the environment.
I choose organic cotton

Organic cotton delivers proven benefits for people and the environment - when it comes to sustainability claims you can trust, nothing beats it.

1. Give control to farmers, not GM companies
2. Eliminate hazardous synthetic pesticides
3. Help farmers feed their families
4. Save precious water
5. Combat climate change

help give
control
to farmers
not GM
companies

Organic farmers don't
have their choices
controlled by GM companies

Organic cotton production never uses GM seed. The small-scale farmers who produce the majority of our cotton need reliability, not high risks. Using low external inputs that are locally available, organic allows farmers to work within their limits and with their environment, in a sustainable way. Organic cotton puts choices in the farmer's hands.

help eliminate hazardous synthetic pesticides

Organic cotton doesn't
use dangerous pesticides, protecting farmers' lives
and the environment

As organic cotton farmers around the world demonstrate every day, cotton can be grown without pesticides. By eliminating all hazardous synthetic pesticides in its production organic cotton offers a healthy and sustainable farming future for farmers and their families. Organic takes the toxic impact out of producing cotton.

help
farmers
feed their families

Organic cotton enables
farmers to grow other
crops for food and income

Organic farmers grow a diversity of crops to maintain healthy and fertile soils and fight off pests. By diversifying crops, farmers can also diversify their income. Growing food or other crops helps insure organic farmers against crop failure, climate variability, price volatility and changes in market demand.

help save
precious
water

Organic cotton uses
less water, preserving
a scarce and precious
resource for the future

Organic farming practices create healthy soils which make better use of water inputs and are more resilient in drought conditions. By eliminating the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilisers, organic cotton keeps waterways and drinking water safe and clean. The water pollution impact of organic has been shown to be 98% less than non-organic cotton production.

help combat
climate
change

Organic cotton farming
uses less energy and
healthy organic soils
store more carbon

Organic cotton farmers are doing their bit to combat climate change. By eliminating the use of manufactured fertilisers and pesticides and reducing nitrogen inputs, organic cotton growing produces up to 94% less greenhouse gas emissions. By maintaining their health, organic practices turn soils into a carbon 'sink', removing CO₂ from the atmosphere.