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CIF Bremen: Adjustments Increase Utility Value

24. May 2018
Interview with Axel Trede, Chairman of the Committee for Price Quotations: Since the Bremen Cotton Futures Market closed in 1971, the Bremen Cotton Exchange has been publishing a price index for cotton that is... To the article

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

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