For 74 years, CORSI, the cooperative for radio and television in Italian-speaking Switzerland, has been overseeing public radio and television programming in the Ticino Canton. In an era when television has a massive influence on democracy, the cooperatives experience offers a fascinating story. The cooperative was founded in 1938 with the aim of increasing transparency […]
Iran’s IT Success Story
Pishgaman Kavir Yazd is Iran’s biggest IT cooperative, founded in 1996 in the central province of Yazd. The company soon expanded its activities and geographic reach, and is now one of the leaders in Iran’s IT and ICT industry, providing internet and communication connections to all of the country’s provinces. The group has over 1,500,000 […]
Connecting Clients and Communication Cooperatives
French businesses can now connect with a network of communication cooperatives to find exactly the communication skills they need, in any media, provided in a fair and ethical way. MADEinSCOP is a multi-channel hub linking 200 cooperatives in the communication sector and forging connections between clients and cooperatives. We’ve got human values, we believe in […]
Comunità Impegno Società Cooperativa Sociale
History is written with many small day-by-day steps forward….this is ours! It all began with a priest and some young people, with the grand ideals typical of the young and the gamble that they would be able to live a dream. A dream cannot only be a personal one, because, then, it only remains a […]
CoBank
CoBank is a national cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states. CoBank is a member of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide network of banks and retail lending associations chartered […]
An Alternative Voice in Israeli Media
An ambitious online newspaper is bringing a new voice to the Israeli media scene. Owned by a cooperative, Megafon wants to offer a fresh alternative to what it sees as a stagnated media scene. The Israeli media market is small, and controlled by a small number of very rich families. For these media moguls, freedom […]
Water not only quenches one’s thirst, it also heals
Zelenogradskaya real has been produced by the cooperative Kaliningrad Consumer Society Commercial and Trade Centre 2 for almost 20 years. The mineral water is extracted from the deepest well of the region, with a depth of 274 meters. It is characterized by its good taste, an absence of artificial additives, and has an optimal […]
More and more Co-operator shops opening in the Republic of Buryatia
For small-scale consumer societies competition makes survival difficult. That is why the Union of Consumer Societies of Buryatia (Burcoopsojuz) has consolidated its operations in order to improve the competitiveness of consumer cooperatives. This consolidation was successfully implemented by the consumer society, translated from Russian as Universal trade base of Burcoopsojuz. As of today, 100 shops, […]
Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative
Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative (TOCMC) was founded in 1993. Its members produce most of the organic cotton grown in the United States. Around thirty producers plant 10-15,000 acres of organic and transitional cotton. These family farms produce 6,000 – 15,000 bales a year. Yields are very rainfall dependent, varying significantly from year to year. […]
Mobile Technology Transforms African Farmers into Cooperative Entrepreneurs
Mozambique sits on the coast of southeastern Africa, blessed with fertile soil, but suffering the effects of difficult transportation and little communication infrastructure in its rural areas. 81 percent of its population contributes to its agriculture production, which amounts to nearly one third of the countrys GDP. Since 1995, CLUSA International (CLUSA), a program of […]