{"id":278176,"date":"2019-06-06T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYmh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vbmV3LXByb2plY3QtdG8tcHJvbW90ZS1zdXN0YWluYWJsZS1jb3R0b24tdmFsdWUtY2hhaW4taW4tZXRoaW9waWEv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:18:24","slug":"solidaridad-and-partners-launched-a-project-for-a-more-sustainable-ethiopian-cotton-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278176","title":{"rendered":"Solidaridad and partners launched a project for a more sustainable Ethiopian cotton chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 New Business Ethiopia reported that Solidaridad, Cotton made in Africa, the Danish Ethical Trading Initiative, and MVO Nederland were starting a project meant to promote a more sustainable cotton and garment value chain in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423532\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Solidaridad and partners launched a project for a more sustainable Ethiopian cotton chain\" \/>\n<p>The partnership aimed to improve farming and factory standards so Ethiopian cotton and clothing could meet stricter buyer rules on environment and labor, which mattered for readers who follow Hawassa-style industrial parks and export apparel.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as agribusiness and environment archive, the report dates an early multi-NGO push to clean up Ethiopia\u2019s cotton-to-garment chain in mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/new-project-to-promote-sustainable-cotton-value-chain-in-ethiopia\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New project to promote sustainable cotton value chain in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaSolidaridad, Cotton made in Africa, Danish Ethical Trading Initiative and MVO Nederland start a new project to promote a sustainable cotton and garment va&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1amI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755065,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278176\/revisions\/755065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}