The North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) family organises and educates affordable group equity cooperatives and their members for the purpose of promoting a community-oriented cooperative movement. Since 1968, NASCO has been working with students, housing cooperatives, worker-owners, activists, and community members who are interested in applying cooperative principles to meet their needs and fulfil […]
Cooperativa de Trabajo Coprinf Ltda.
COPRINF Ltd. is a cooperative technology company that offers its services of softwares development and technological solutions, graphic design and technical support to other business, institutions and individuals. Currently is made up of university graduates with different profiles such as softwares engineers and softwares developers, graphic designers and softwares technicians among others.
The Co-op, Heart of the Barossa
Since 1944, The Co-op has been the heart of South Australia’s Barossa Established in the dying days of World War II to bring the community together and collaboratively create a better future for the region, The Co-op is now the largest retail co-operative in Australia. Turning over more than $60 million a year it […]
RSTA scrl – Ricerca e Sviluppo Tecnologie Appropriate
R.S.T.A. provides and organizes technical assistance in environmental issues, with a large range of specialist skills. Our cooperative provides instrumentation and expertise to offer support to public and private organizations aimed at monitoring, planning and the enhancement of marine and terrestrial environment. R.S.T.A. is involved in marine biology and fishery research activities, preliminary studies useful for […]
Kibinge Coffee Farmers’ Co-operative Society in Uganda
Kibinge Coffee Farmers’ Co-operative Society in Uganda did go through a successful year in 2016! Its ambitions in the areas of financial management, memberships, processing and sales are limitless. The coffee farmers keep being ambitious: their dream is to set up their own processing factory in the near future. This would be another big step […]
Tierra Nueva and ACODEA – a success story from Nicaragua
The cooperative Tierra Nueva was established in 1997, with 23 members to market better prices for their organic coffee. At that time, farmers had to accept high variations in the market price as middlemen were the only buyers rotating through the villages. A lot has changed in the last 20 years and a new collaboration […]
Vietnam Cooperative Development Plan
As a result of the Vietnamese Cooperative Development Plan, which was signed during the closing ceremony of the regional conference on food security in Hanoi in March 2017 Agriterra was happy to welcome the delegation of Vietnamese Agriculture, Planning and Investment ministers, representatives of banks and our Vietnamese cooperative partners in the Netherlands. “We feel greatly […]
Sol & Café in Peru: a coffee cooperative that delivers outstanding coffee
Sol & Cafe is a cooperative of farmers, with more then 1000 members, producing coffee, cacao, rice and other products. Their relationship with Agriterra began in 2012. They have worked very interesting topics for the development of the capacities and training in financial management of the members, board members and all the staff. The cooperative […]
Coopecan – a success story 4,000 – 5,500 meters above sea level
Coopecan is a cooperative of alpaca shepherds/producers in Peru. The cooperative has more than 1000 members. Coopecan is improving the quality of the pastures to improve the production of the alpaca fibre. The fibres are processed in a plant in Arequipa for export. Coopecan cooperates with Agriterra since 2011 and Agriterra supports them to set up […]
Cooperativa de Servicios y Obras Públicas
Cooperativa de Servicios y Obras Públicas (Public Works and Services Cooperative) recently built El Algarrobo Residence, a 13,700-square-metre home, especially designed for the elderly. Each of the 5,000 families in Oncativo is a partner of the cooperative residence.