[T]he Aid by Trade Foundation...threads run together for the largest public-private partnership project in current German development cooperation: the Cotton made in Africa...initiative. In 2005 textile retailers, such as the Otto Group, joined forces with public sponsors including the international cooperation agency GIZ...and the German investment and development agency DEG...as well as NGOs such as German Agro Action - Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, WWF and the Nature and Biodiversity Union...Together they want to help African cotton farmers to produce their cotton more economically and more ecologically, and thus improve the living conditions of their families...Today there are roughly 200,000 farmers in Burkina Faso, Benin, Zambia, Malawi and Ivory Coast who are producing Cotton made in Africa. They have agreed to forego all unacceptable forms of child labour. [also refers to Puma, Celio, El Corte Inglés, Tchibo]