This project aims to improve wage transparency in cotton production, to support wage improvement strategies which will ultimately benefit farm workers.
Wage transparency has been a challenge in the agricultural sector, but particularly in cotton, as a seasonal crop with a complex value chain and a prevalence of smallholders.
Multiple challenges – 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.
This project will develop and test a simple farm-level survey tool for sampling wages in cotton production, which is adaptable and scaleable across different contexts.