ADDIS-ABABA – With the addition of 9,000 cotton farmers in North-western Ethiopia, the Cotton made in Africa initiative (CmiA) now reaches around 650,000 smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa who are growing cotton to its sustainability standards. The Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF), which runs CmiA, says that together with their family members the CmiA initiative now reaches over 5.5 million people on the African continent.
