Industry and Other

With the support of many partners and leading experts from across the world, we have created a science-based sustainability initiative that spans the textile supply chain.

Achieving improved sustainability outcomes is a journey, and its success is dependent on many factors – from fostering collaboration and a collective sense of purpose, to delivering consistency across all activity that will drive change. We are also aware that the U.S. cotton industry, like many industries, must deliver this progress as demand increases.

Each organization brings their own expertise from within the cotton industry, a thorough understanding of the sustainability challenges facing the textile industry, or experience within the retail sector.

Supporting Membership Levels

A key link to the Trust Protocol’s overarching goals are the many companies and organizations who are providers and suppliers to the cotton value chain or that support efforts to produce more sustainably grown cotton.

A Supporting Member category has been created that provides companies and organizations an opportunity to support the program’s mission and vision.

Participating in this category also provides the opportunity to directly support Protocol growers through the Field Innovation Fund with the goal of enabling continuous improvement. These activities could include educational opportunities, expanded program outreach/awareness, Climate Smart Cotton Program activities, or services to grower members. 

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We are proud to work with the following members.

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Deepika Mishra

Standards and Data Lead (consultant)

Deepika Mishra is the Standards and Data Lead for the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, acting as a consultant for the program. As an accomplished scientist and data analytics specialist, Deepika leads on analysis of the Trust Protocol’s environmental metrics. She collaborates extensively with agricultural research institutions, conservation groups, and food and trade organizations, playing a vital role in the establishment of sustainability and social standards within the industry.

Deepika earned her Ph.D. in plant and soil science from Texas Tech University, specializing in cotton breeding and genetics. With over a decade of experience, she has spearheaded diverse agricultural projects in both India and the United States, covering crops like cotton, cowpeas, castor, sesame, guar, guayule, tomato, and field pennycress (cover crop). Her contributions also include the development and release of multiple cowpea varieties in India during her M.S. studies in vegetable breeding and genetics.