In 2013 the global representative body for the global cooperative sector, the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), decided it was time to take action on sustainability. Oft used as a term to describe cooperatives, the ICA wanted to understand in great detail in fact how appropriate and accurate the term “sustainable” was to describe the cooperative […]
Sustainability: inbuilt in the cooperative model
In 2013 the global representative body for the global cooperative sector, the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), decided it was time to take action on sustainability. Oft used as a term to describe cooperatives, the ICA wanted to understand in great detail in fact how appropriate and accurate the term “sustainable” was to describe the cooperative […]
Increasing sustainability through training
“Education is not nearly as costly as the conflicts and failures incurred because of lack of understanding of the co-op business model. High-performing leaders know the importance of equipping directors, employees and management with the knowledge to understand their respective roles and therefore, develop and lead their cooperative with a unified approach.” These words from […]
Young Farmers for the Future
Before 2011, formation of farmers labor organization was forbidden in Myanmar. AFFM was established, with a few members who owned less than 10 acres of land. In 2014, with the help of the MTCP2 Project, AFFM started to organize more farmer members from village levels to township and up to region / state levels. Finally […]
Coop Coffee visits Brussels
Last November, representatives of Coop Coffee Indonesia visited the ICA office in Brussels to discuss their coffee business. The welfare of the farmers/ members is our top priority and we are working on selling our coffee to the Starbucks Trading Company, shipping the coffee directly to Seattle, US. Coop Coffee Indonesia (Co-operative for the Indonesian […]
Coop Coffee Indonesia
Coop Coffee Indonesia (Co-operative for the Indonesian Coffee) is the business program for the coffee farmers under Indonesian Ministry of Co-operative & Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Of Republic of Indonesia. Two aims of the business is to IMPROVE the coffee farmers’ wealth in co-operative bases and to PROMOTE the Indonesian best coffee to the world due […]
Rah Roshd Cooperative Educational Complex: A Brief Introduction
Rah Roshd Cooperative Educational Complex: A Brief Introduction Rah Roshd Cooperative Educational Complex, active in the nation’s education system for three decades, was started up as a kindergarten in 1987 by a number of Tehrani teachers who had innovative ideas in the field of education and yearned to have a different philosophy of school administration […]
Farmer and Nature Net Association (FNN)
Farmers and Nature Net Association (FNN) is a local, non-profit and non-political farmer organization, which was established in 2003 and officially registered at the Ministry of Interior on March 10th, 2006. The vision of FNN is to “promote family economic of farmers and of rural community equity and sustainability. The Mission: • Unite as one […]
Vietnam Cooperative Development Plan
As a result of the Vietnamese Cooperative Development Plan, which was signed during the closing ceremony of the regional conference on food security in Hanoi in March 2017 Agriterra was happy to welcome the delegation of Vietnamese Agriculture, Planning and Investment ministers, representatives of banks and our Vietnamese cooperative partners in the Netherlands. “We feel greatly […]