Since its inception in 1939, the ICAC has been recognized as the gold standard for cotton statistics and technical information and that reputation is a continuing source of pride for the Secretariat, as is serving as a link between the private sector and our Member governments via the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC). But there’s nothing that makes us prouder than changing the lives of everyday people via the ICAC’s many projects.
In some cases, the Secretariat conducts training on its own, using ICAC innovations like the Virtual Reality Cotton Training Program, the voice-based Soil and Plant Health app, the Cone Pit Open Earth Kiln technique, Ecological Engineering, and the ‘Four Steps to Sustainable High Yields’ program. To read more about all of these exciting technologies, click here.
In other cases, the ICAC undertakes projects in collaboration with one of our many partners using our combined resources as a “force multiplier” to improve the daily lives of some of the most vulnerable people on earth: smallholder cotton farmers.
Below is a list of the current and past projects that the ICAC has participated in as part of its role as the only intergovernmental commodity body representing cotton that is recognized by the United Nations.
