Saturday morning, 6:00 am. The sun is beginning to rise over the Reconcavo, and the landscape is plunged into an intense, lush green light. The four farmers and neighbours Fernando Alvez, Luiz Ribeiro, Eduardo da Cruz and Evaldo Gonzago have been working for around two hours, and have already loaded the 40 year old Ford-pick-up, […]
An integrated food and agricultural company
CLAI is a Cooperative of Agricultural Workers and Breeders that has operated in the cold cuts and fresh meats sector since 1962, guaranteeing the complete supervision of the food chain. Today the company has around 230 members and 400 employees, and is the third player in Salame market in Italy (Databank Salumi November 2010). All […]
Clai Sca
CLAI is a Cooperative of Agricultural Workers and Breeders that has operated in the cold cuts and fresh meats sector since 1962, guaranteeing the complete supervision of the food chain. Today the company has around 230 members and 400 employees, and is the third player in Salame market in Italy (Databank Salumi November 2010). All […]
Building Italy for over a century
From humble origins CMB stands for Cooperativa Braccianti e Muratori, the cooperative of labourers and bricklayers, and Carpi is a small town in Emilia-Romagna CMB Carpi has grown to become one of Italys top ten construction groups, building motorways, hospitals and shopping centres all over the country. The original cooperatives, the Cooperativa Braccianti […]
Clai Sca
CLAI is a Cooperative of Agricultural Workers and Breeders that has operated in the cold cuts and fresh meats sector since 1962, guaranteeing the complete supervision of the food chain. Today the company has around 230 members and 400 employees, and is the third player in Salame market in Italy (Databank Salumi November 2010). All […]
Integrity and respect
From the early 1980s, the big banks deserted many smaller country centres in New South Wales. The Community Mutual Group (CMG) stepped into that role, retaining and extending local branches and agencies as well as maintaining local decision-making and the friendly face of local banking. Today CMG is the largest inland credit union in Australia […]
The successful case of a small producers organization
The organization Asociacíon Bananos Ecológicos de la Línea Noroeste (BANELINO) was founded in 1996 when small Caribbean producers from Mao and Montecristi in the Dominican Republic decided to join their forces to create an organization that ensures the sale of bananas all over the year and at a fair price, which allows the producers and […]
A footstep in the past with an eye to the future – Ko Ng Tapuwae o namata, He Tirohanga ake m App
Te Kaihanga is the Maori word for builder or creator, physical or otherwise. Between the late 1960s and the 1990s, thousands of Maori teenagers came from New Zealands North Island to study and work in Christchurch (South Island) under a program run by New Zealands now defunct Maori Affairs Department. These teenagers trained for 1-2 […]
Bringing Islamic Microfinance to the Women of Rural Cameroon
Sharia, Islamic law, prohibits usury, the collection and payment of interest, as well as investing in businesses that are considered unlawful. But with some modifications, microfinance can be made Shariah-compliant, opening up access to credit and poverty alleviation services to many Muslims. The department of Noun, in western Cameroon, has a population of 1 million, […]
The cooperative model in microfinance: More current and pertinent than ever
In the microfinance sector, cooperatives reach significantly more individuals and families than other financial institutions making them the actors who are truly responsible for improving access to financial services for all, and thereby increasing local economic growth and reducing poverty. Knowing that 2.5 billion individuals, three quarters of the world’s poor, still do not have […]