Wage transparency has long been a challenge in agricultural production, including in cotton as a seasonal crop with a complex value chain and a prevalence of smallholders.
Key barriers – including informal labour arrangements, labour mobility, and lack of documentation, and prevalence of piece-rate labour – have made it difficult and costly for sustainability systems to collect wage data and monitor improvements over time.
Better Cotton collaborated with its Programme Partners in Pakistan to develop and pilot a farm-level survey tool for sampling wages in cotton production. The objective was to create a simple approach for collecting reliable farm-level wage data, which is adaptable and scalable across different contexts.
Read the report below, which summarises key findings, cross-sectoral learnings, and considers the opportunities for continued collaboration.
