Better Cotton Initiative at IKEA: Bringing Sustainability into the Textile Supply Chain



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Sweden-based furniture retail giant IKEA Systems BV (IKEA), had a long history of addressing environmental and social issues at the root level. Over the years, the company developed some internal procedures to enable this, including the Natural Step (TNS) Framework (the basic structure for its environmental policy), the IKEA Sustainability Product Scorecard (to evaluate the sustainability impact of its products), and IWAY (a code of conduct to deal with social responsibility among suppliers).

During the early 2000s, when the issue of sustainability of cotton shot into prominence, IKEA knew little about cotton cultivation and its manufacturing process. However, understanding the cotton supply chain was crucial for the company, as cotton was the second largest raw material used by it. The aim was to promote improvements in cotton cultivation so as to produce more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable cotton......

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It was not an easy task to trace the cotton supply chain and ensure that all the cotton IKEA purchased from suppliers and used in its products was grown in accordance with sustainable practices. To address the issue of sustainability of cotton, IKEA adopted a pioneering approach of directly working with the farmers. Through its partnership with the WWF , IKEA initiated pilot projects in Pakistan and India to teach farmers how to cultivate more sustainable cotton......

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