Global Cotton: One University – One Book – One City
18. May 2018 With its proposal “Global Cotton. One university – One book – One city”, the University of Bremen has won this year’s competition One University – One Bookjointly launched by the Stifterverband Deutsche Wissenschaft, the ZEIT... To the article
DNA Tests on Organic Cotton: Opportunities and Limitations
9. May 2018 Interview with Dr Hermann Rüggeberg and Dr Lothar Kruse, Impetus Bioscience: Genetically modified cotton seeds have been marketed since 1995. They contain genes that give them properties such as resistance to pests, e.g. the... To the article
34th International Cotton Conference: Making the Cotton Supply Chain transparent
20. April 2018 Bremen and cotton have been united for more than 200 years. This was confirmed once again, when the 34th International Cotton Conference took place in the historic Town Hall from March 21st to 23rd... To the article
ILO: Child labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest has come to an end
17. April 2018 Monitoring team finds strong political will from central government to end fundamental labour rights’ violations during the 2017 cotton harvest: Child labour is no longer an issue, while forced labour is being systematically addressed.... To the article
34th International Cotton Conference Bremen – Deep Insights into the Multifaceted World of Cotton
26. March 2018 Quality, Innovation and Digitalisation are Crucial From the 21st to the 23rd of March, the international cotton industry came together in the historic Bremen Town Hall, under the motto “Cotton Insights”. More than 500... To the article
International Cotton Conference Bremen 21 – 23 March – Traceability of Cotton
15. March 2018 Possibilities and Limitations in Controversial Discussion Traceability: for some time now, this word has been of great importance in the supply chain. Reliable traceability back to the origin of the fibre – is this... To the article