Dan Patterson is an American businessman originally from Mississippi who is running Silverleafe, one of the first textile “clusters” in Uzbekistan. For the first time in years, clusters like Patterson’s are making it possible to source cotton from…

Cotton makes the world go round – from t-shirts to beach towels to face masks, it makes up the products and goods that are so much a part of our lives.    Cotton is…

For four years, Uzbekistan has been working to eliminate forced labor in its cotton harvest and it has largely done just that according to a new report from the International Labour Organization. But, there’s one problem: international…