Tien Phong Muong Vi in Muong Vi commune, Bat Xat district, Lao Cai Province, established on 17/01/2014 is an agricultural cooperative. Its 14 (households) members business activities include: growing rice, planting spice and medicinal plants; processing and preserving vegetables and fruits; production of pharmaceutical chemicals and pharmaceutical materials; post-harvest service activities. Disadvantages and difficulties of […]
Tien Phong Muong Vi
Business activities: growing rice, planting spice and medicinal plants; processing and preserving vegetables and fruits; production of pharmaceutical chemicals and pharmaceutical materials; post-harvest service activities Number of members: 14 households
Boosting Organic Rice Production
Kampong Chhnang – Cambodia – June 2019 “Joint investment with cooperative is better than sole investment because we have the chairperson, treasury, committee in charge of each area, we have members and we can know the information from the outside markets so the middlemen cannot price down our paddy”, said Ms. Chim Soky, community committee […]
A NEW MARKET ENVIRONMENT
Kampong Chhnang – Cambodia – June 2019 Boeng Leach Village, Sethey Commune, Samaki Meanchey District, Kampong Chhnang is around 60km away from Phnom Penh and the residents there mostly grow rice and crops, and raise animals. Their farming tends to rely on traditional methods. There is only limited use of modern techniques and therefore the […]
Why Kenya needs Cooperative Businesses to Achieve Affordable Housing
Home ownership has traditionally been the foundation of the average Kenyan’s growth in net worth. Year over year, however, the ability of Kenyans to purchase land or homes has decreased. The World Bank estimated in 2017 that 6 out of 10 households in Nairobi are in the informal settlements[1]. In government administrations, current and previous, housing […]
Asiapro Multi-Purpose Cooperative
Asiapro Multi-purpose Cooperative ranks among the country’s largest and excellently managed social enterprises. From a pioneer workers cooperative established in 1999 by 60 members who envisioned marginalized, low-income workers enjoying the full benefits of regular employment, Asiapro (together with its affiliates) exponentially grew and became a strong collective force of 65,000 workers. They serve up […]
Víctor H. Pinzón Parra: una vida dedicada al cooperativismo
Uno de los dos líderes visionarios que junto con 27 médicos se unieron para conjugar propósitos y voluntades y fundaron el 4 de marzo de 1.964 la Cooperativa Médica del Valle y de profesionales de Colombia. Médico, especialista en Pediatría, tocado por el espíritu del cooperativismo, ha sido su maestro en diferentes espacios, dentro y […]
WE EFFECT, Work in Cambodia
We intend to end poverty with gender equality. Doing this, we have supported 34 agriculture cooperatives in fives neighboring provinces. Together with our local partner organizations, we have delivered many interventions focused on promoting female entrepreneurship, inclusive financial services, market linkage, sustainable and climate change resilient agriculture, and protecting farmers rights through working for conducive […]
Coop Coffee visits Brussels
Last November, representatives of Coop Coffee Indonesia visited the ICA office in Brussels to discuss their coffee business. The welfare of the farmers/ members is our top priority and we are working on selling our coffee to the Starbucks Trading Company, shipping the coffee directly to Seattle, US. Coop Coffee Indonesia (Co-operative for the Indonesian […]
Farmer Cooperative, Preah Rumkel Commune, Stung Treng Province-Cambodia.
Success Story: Farmer Cooperative, a good way to reduce poverty Preah Rumkel Commune, located in Thalaborivat district, Stung Treng province, is a remote and poor commune consisting of 8 villages with a population of 5,346 people (2,681 female) living in 972 households. People mostly depend on agricultural activities (95%) and 43% of the target households […]