WTO/ FIFA Cotton Four Countries Project Enters $12bn Mobilisation Stage
▪︎ WTO DG, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala UNIDO, WTO, ITC, Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), have begun mobilizing $12 billion to support the development of a sustainable cotton industry in the Cotton Four countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali – or “C4”) and Côte d’Ivoire. The project, tagged ‘Partnership for Cotton…