The Fifth Season Cooperative is a multi-stakeholder cooperative made up of producers, producer groups, food processors, distributors, and buyers from the 7 Rivers Region. Our members represent all of the key players in the food system at the local level. Our goal is to build a robust regional food system that supports a healthy environment, […]
Katuka Development Trust
Robusta coffee has traditionally been grown in the central region of Uganda around the Lake Victoria basin, but rudimentary, unsustainable production methods were depleting soil fertility and producing poor-quality coffee with little value on the international market. The Katuka Development Trust Ltd (KTDL), a cooperatively owned company limited by guarantee, is working to improve farmers’ […]
Mayange Pigs Farmers Cooperative (MPFC)
Southeastern Rwanda’s Mayange is one of the poorest regions in one of the poorest countries in the world. It’s an area that bears the scars of the country’s 1994 genocide, and once densely forested, now faces the present day aftermath of soil erosion and drought exacerbated by decades of logging for charcoal production. Most of […]
Shallalà Honey Producers – Ethiopia
Honey has a central role in Ethiopian culture: it is the essential ingredient in the national drink, Tej, a kind of mead, and bee products are widely used for medicinal purposes in hospitals. The country is one of the world’s leading honey and beeswax producers, but the industry is relatively undeveloped; honey is mostly produced […]
Shallalà Honey Producers
Shallalà Honey Producers is a cooperative of beekeepers in Shallalà, Ethiopia, a small town in the Hadiya zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region.
Costa Rican Farmers’ Cooperative Diversify and Succeed
Salt, shrimp and tropical fruit: it’s not a typical product range. But after 35 years of business, Costa Rican farmer’s cooperative Coonaprosal has grown to encompass all three products. The successful cooperative is one of 288 cooperatives funded by Oikocredit, an international social investment cooperative. It was 1974 when Carlos Bonilla took the first steps […]
Zaytoun CIC
Palestine is home to ancient olive groves, some over 2,000 years old, and the greenish-grey trees dominate the agricultural landscape. But Palestinian producers struggle to export their olives and oil, and in 2004 Zaytoun was founded to create and develop a market for fairly traded Palestinian produce in the United Kingdom. Converted to a cooperative […]
Coopérative Agricole Taliouine
The Souktana plateau, high up in Morocco’s Sirwa mountains, is planted with purple fields of Crocus sativus, the flower whose dried stigmas are known as saffron, the world’s most expensive spice. Producing saffron is labour-intensive work. The flowers must be picked manually at dawn, while still closed, and the tiny stigmas are separated by hand. […]
Coopérative Agricole Taliouine
Unites a group of farmers in rural Morocco who produce saffron and olive oil and helps them market their products.
Libro Financial Group
Libro is a credit union. As such we are owned by the people who bank here. No shareholders in far-off places, no towers in the sky. Libro exists in southwestern Ontario to help you own your life.