More than 1 billion people worldwide are members of co-operatives, and on first glance, that staggering fact seems to have no geographic bounds. There are an astounding number of co-operative members from countries as far-ranging as Singapore (where they make up half of the countrys population) to Germany (that counts a quarter of its population […]
Iran’s big co-operative plans
Six years ago, the Iranian Vegetable Oil Industry Association decided it was time to go into business co-operative business. Under its association framework it was not legally allowed to go into business, only to act as a collaborator between the private sector and the government in Iran. So, the association created The Iran Oilseeds […]
Iran Oilseeds & Vegetable Oil Processing Factories Cooperative (Farda Coop)
Farda Coop was established on 20 May 2006. It has 28 shareholders from vegetable oil factories in Iran that account for 93% of Iran’s vegetable oil industry. Farda provides all technical, financial needs and raw materials in which the shareholders need. 41% of Farda personnel are women. Farda also established a coop university, a transportation […]
Co-operatives key to Iran’s economy
Iran has a plan. It wants to expand its co-operative sector to account for 25 per cent of GDP. This is no small task. It would represent a five-fold lift in contribution from the co-operative sector to the national economy from the five per cent of GDP it already accounts for. At the head of […]
Iran Central Chamber of Commerce (Iran Central Chamber of Cooperatives)
By virtue of the Article 57 of national cooperative law, Iran Central Chamber of Cooperatives was established in Tehran as the national apex non-governmental cooperative organization and its branches in all Iranian provinces. ICCs scope of authorities is the same as Irans Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines (ICCIM), but in the cooperative sector. It’s […]
The kinship tradition
In the early 1970s the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern was really, really racist, says resident Sol Bellear, of the Bundjalung people, far north New South Wales coast. To receive medical care, you had to pay two dollars to attend the emergency department. If you were Aboriginal you might sit there for half the day and […]
Aboriginal Medical Service Co-operative Ltd
Aboriginal primary health care service provider, offering medical and dental care as well as a drug and alcohol clinic nearby.
Social housing policy in Australia
In November last year we were commissioned by the Community Housing Federation Victoria to investigate and document the economic, social and psychological benefits of living in co-operative rental housing (rather than in what is almost the norm in Australia privately owned or rented dwellings). A summary of the report is available including recommendations which were […]
Co-operative legislation finds a home in more nations
Our main objective is to increase the prosperity and welfare of our people by means of economic development and improvement. Within this respect, one of the important means contributing to activating our policies on a social state is the cooperatives entrepreneurship. Cooperatives have gained an international identity in time and have become successful initiative models […]
From Sea to Desert: Coops Band together to Share Knowledge and Customers
In 1979 One Village One Product (OVOP) movement started in Oita Prefecture, Japan. The goal was simple: to unite communities around the creation of a specific good and facilitate larger markets for those goods. The model was successful. From shitake mushrooms to tourist filled hot springs, OVOP fostered businesses and realized economic growth. As OVOPs […]