Project OVOP aims to establish a model allowing local artisans to enhance their income generating activities through value addition of local resources. Launched in March 2011 as a technical cooperation project of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), with the Direction of Craft Industry of Senegal assuming OVOP Secretariat, Project OVOP is implemented in Fatick […]
The Central Union Of Turkish Forestry Cooperatives
Forest villages are located a long distance from cities. The living conditions in these villages are severe. Forest villagers have low-income. Their share in the national income is very low: the equivalent to about one quarter of the national income. The main income of these villagers comes from working in the forest and a very […]
The Central Union Of Turkish Forestry Cooperatives
OR-KOOP advocates for the economic and social rights of forest villagers. There are 8,228 agricultural development coops with 785.710 members. 3.500 are in Turkeys forest villages and 2,109 of them are involved in forestry. Forest production activities were carried out according to State Forest Organization forest management plans. Until 1977 production operations were carried out […]
Cooperativa Café Timor
Cooperativa Café Timor (CCT) was founded in the wake of the destruction of much of East Timor after it gained independence from Indonesia in 1999. In 2000, a group of farmers, in an attempt to successfully market their coffee internationally, united to form CCT. Today, the organization has grown to include 19,600 members from 16 […]
Promised Land
The women were willing to volunteer time, to work for their children and their future, Woulimata Thiaw reminisces about the early days of the Popenguine Women’s Group for the Protection of Nature. She does not hold back about how men did not believe in the cooperatives potential. Thiaw, the current Cooperative President, turns the discussion […]
COPRANAT
The cooperative adopts a multi-pronged approach to improving the environment and raising living standards in the villages. Forestry, including the preservation of mangroves and evasion of erosion, is the primary activity. The group also focusses on tourism, gardening and development of small industries for the women in the area.
Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione (Federation of Cooperation in Trentino)
The Federation of Cooperation in Trentino promotes the development of the cooperative movement, coordinates and enhances the activities of cooperatives, and helps direct their actions to most effectively respond to the needs of the most vulnerable groups in society in the spirit of cooperation and mutuality. In this way the Federation aims to contribute to […]
Sardica Logistica Multiservice
The Sardica Multiservice Logistics is active in the commercial and business services, including import / export, new technologies (energy, water, environment).
Cheese, Soccer Balls and Sweaters: Worth Their Salt
Only a generation ago a single salt mine offered the vast majority of job opportunities for the people of Salinas de Guaranda, Ecuador. This salt mine was not a cooperative. It did not offer collective governance to the workers. Owned by a single man, the workers received low wages in unsafe conditions with no hope […]
Supporting Quebec’s Strong Cooperative Society
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, […]