While the inclusion of a session on organic cotton at ICAC's 70th plenary meeting is a sign of the progress that organic cotton has made in becoming accepted within the wider cotton sector, the fact that one panellist was able to highlight poor practices (Uganda) shows that the organic sector cannot be complacent and needs to improve its performance to the level of the best1.Growth in demand and supply are not the only criteria of success that the organic cotton sector needs to look at. While several participants at the ICAC meeting were positive about organic cotton in their countries there is also still scepticism about organic cotton and concern that its supporters sometimes tend to highlight 'false positives' rather than real data and that organic cotton - the pioneering solution to the negative impacts of some cotton practices initiated in the late 1980s - has become just another commodity.
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