Bounded by some of the earths most dramatic landscapes, Chile, a thin lance of land, stretches four thousand three hundred kilometers down the western edge of South America. The trembling, volcanic Andean Cordiera, home to some of the highest peaks in the world, forms the country’s eastern border. To the west, large cold Pacific Ocean […]
Uniting India’s Fishing Cooperatives
India’s long coastline and rich inland waters means that fishing is a major industry in the country, with over 14 million people involved in fishing and aquaculture. Fishing communities, however, are among the weakest in society, suffering from illiteracy, poverty and lack of knowledge about technology. Many fishermen are exploited by middlemen, but cooperatives can […]
Transportation Co-perative Connects People
The transporters co-operative Tucura Ltda – COOTRANSTUR was founded on 13th September 1976 and named after Tucura, an indigenous tribe that lived in the region of the upper reaches of the Sinú river. They transported timber and corn by rafts which slid down the river Sinú pushed by its currents up to the river ports […]
The Cooperative Watching Over Swiss-Italian TV
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 […]
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 […]
Transforming 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 […]
Cooperative news from around the world
Co-operative News, the world’s oldest surviving co-operative publication, was launched by the Movement for the Movement over 140 years ago in 1871. The News began as a weekly newspaper reporting on the growth of consumer co-operatives after the Movement’s seven principles were established by the Rochdale Pioneers at their first store on Toad Lane. Today, […]
Building Communities with Cooperative Television
Central Hungarys Upper-Kiskunság is one of the country’s poorest and most under-developed regions, but community development work over the past 15 years has led to the founding of a number of cooperatives, including a community television station. The lowland plains south of Budapest, in the former flood zone of the River Danube, are plagued with […]
Fairtrade at the Co-operative Academy of Leeds
Even though many people now have some sort of awareness of Fairtrade, the majority of people are not aware there is a specific fortnight from February-March, which is dedicated to the Fairtrade movement – an annual, nationwide celebration of Fairtrade, with two weeks of events and activities promoting fair and ethical trade in schools, shops, […]
Kitunda SACCO – member stories
Savings, loans and coaching Kitunda Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO) began in 2002 with the aim of providing financial access for people in the area of Kitunda, Tanzania. Located approximately 20 km outside the capital Dar es Salaam, residents of Kitunda have no bank and so depend on Kitunda SACCO for their banking. The SACCO […]