LONDON - The Fairtrade Foundation has secured €80,000 (US$95,000) in funding to provide food and income security for smallholder cotton farmers fighting the impact of COVID-19 in India.
The money has been put up by the German development agency, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), to support the incomes of around 2,150 cotton farmers in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.
It will tackle both the immediate and mid-term crisis and protect the farmers in global apparel supply chains so that businesses can resume trading when the sector recovers.
