From Field to Shelf

Have you heard the latest? Cotton is dirty. That’s right, cotton uses more pesticides than any other crop, is responsible for countless farmer suicides, uses more water than any other row crop, and on top of that, it’s genetically modified like some...

Environmental groups need to be careful about what they wish for: push too hard, and they’ll get what they want, only with unintended consequences. Case in point, the recently published “Sustainability Cotton Ranking 2017,” sponsored by the World Wildlife...

First, there was Brexit. Then there was Trump. Now we have talk of undoing trade agreements and potential trade wars. On top of this drama, we also have weak retail sales in many parts of the world, lackluster global economic growth, technological disruption...

What's wrong with retail these days? Like some slow-motion car wreck, the global retail apparel industry stumbles into the middle of 2017 with little to cheer. In many countries, particularly in the U.S. and Europe, retails sales are anemic. And to make...