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Climate
10 June 2025
Why Biochar Is the Most Underrated Climate Tool in Indian Agriculture
A deep dive into the science, economics and scale potential of cotton-stalk biochar as a permanent carbon removal solution.
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Livelihoods
28 May 2025
How a Women's Farmer Group in Yavatmal Changed a Village
The story of Savitabai Borkar's cooperative — from 8 women sharing a sprayer to 340 women collectively negotiating cotton prices.
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Standards
15 May 2025
What the CGF Standard v3.1 Means for Indian Cotton Farmers
A plain-language guide to the key changes in our updated standard — living income benchmark, climate criteria and digital compliance.
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Traceability
2 May 2025
From Farm to Fashion Floor: Tracing a T-Shirt Back to Its Roots
How CGF's traceability platform follows a single cotton bale from a Wardha farm to a retailer's shelf in Amsterdam.
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Gender
18 April 2025
Gender Data in Agriculture: Why Disaggregated Numbers Matter
Without sex-disaggregated data, sustainable agriculture programmes systematically miss women. Here's how CGF collects and uses gender data.
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Agronomy
5 April 2025
IPM in Practice: How Scouting Changed One Farmer's Pesticide Bill
How a simple weekly crop scouting habit helped Ramkrishna Patil cut his pesticide expenditure by 40% in one season.
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