Did you know that over a third of all the maple syrup consumed in the world is marketed by cooperatives in Quebec? The Canadian province is a hotspot for cooperatives, with a remarkably developed cooperative sector, both in terms of numbers and diversity. Cooperatives play leading roles in industries like financial services, insurance, agriculture, food, […]
Cooperative of Regional Development of Montreal-Laval
The Regional Development Cooperative of Montreal-Laval is a private organization, governed by the Cooperatives Act of Quebec. Our mission is to promote cooperatives and to provide cooperatives with services, expertise and appropriate support, especially to those related to production and work. We work on five cooperative models: Workers cooperatives, Consumers cooperatives, Producers cooperatives, Workers shareholder […]
Becoming a Coop
Dan Rosenberg and Addie Rose Holland are the proud owners of Real Pickles in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Real pickles produces raw naturally fermented pickles made from local, organic and sustainably farmed produce. Every year, Dan and Addie purchase about 100,000 pounds of certified organic vegetables within a 50 mile radius and transform it into six different […]
Turning lemongrass into oil and co-operative profits
Lemongrass is a green, spiky grass which proliferates as ground vegetation in waist-high mounds. In some countries the herb is believed to guard against anxiety, in others to help with coughs. In the mountainous climes of Bhutan lemongrass grows wild. But as one of the kingdoms resident lemongrass experts, Karma Yanka, explains that paradoxically its people dont ingest […]
Powerful national co-operative movement looks to young to grow global movement
One in three Singaporean residents is a member of a co-operative, explains Dolly Goh. But when the lively chief executive of the Singapore National Co-operative Federation (SNCF) talks about her McDonalds strategy she is not only talking about the island nation.This federation has been quietly taking one of its concepts for 2012, the UN International […]
Lemongrass Co-operative
The cooperative exports through a business called Bio Bhutan which manufactures soap and other products using the special oil. It also exports oil to neighbouring India, Nepal and to Thailand.
Salted Earth
Fifty years ago a massive lagoon lay next to the village of Toubab Dialow. Today a small puddle gathers in the rainy season, but, come September, the land is dry and barren once again. Changes in vegetation and soil have destroyed the lagoon and, along with it, the communitys fishing industry. A cooperative of women […]
The Women’s Group of Toubab Dialaw
The organization works to support the economic and physical health of the women of Toubab Dialow. We seek to create opportunity for environmentally sustainable jobs, education and health. We work to make a better life available for the people of our community.
Coopérative de lamanage des ports de Marseille et du golfe de Fos
Shipping company approved by the seaport of Marseille / Fos for the mooring operations of commercial vessels (docking / undocking / pollution control). Approximately 18,500 operations per year.
Turning waste fruit into a profitable business
In the small low-income community of Toisapu, in the Maluku islands, nutmeg used to be seen as a waste fruit. Local villagers would use the nutmeg seed and its mesh, and would throw away the outer cover or the fruit itself. That all changed in 2010, when the Sejuk Women Cooperative came up with the […]