Organic cotton in Benin blooms

11 / 01 / 23

In Benin, West Africa, it’s been another hugely impressive year of organic cotton farming expansion, women’s inclusion, and accessing new market opportunities with our long-term partners the Benin Organisation for the Promotion of Organic Farming (OBEPAB) and Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK). Right now, this TRAID funded project has seen participating organically certified farms achieve a 222% higher net income for…

Ethical fashion?

29 / 04 / 21

TRAID's CEO Maria Chenoweth explores the painfully slow progress of ethical fashion and what we can do about it. Ethical fashion means different things to different people. However, broadly, 'ethical fashion' aims to address five key problems in the fashion industry: waste, exploitative labour, environmental damage including water scarcity, the use of hazardous chemicals and animal cruelty. Ethical fashion, often…

1% for change

17 / 08 / 20

Be One Percent members donate 1% of their income every month to projects tackling poverty and inequality. In July, they raised an incredible £7,539 to provide education scholarships for a TRAID project improving the lives of young women formerly working in exploitative conditions in spinning mills in India. Helen Sharpe from Be One Percent tells us more. TRAID: What is Be…