The women were willing to volunteer time, to work for their children and their future, Woulimata Thiaw reminisces about the early days of the Popenguine Women’s Group for the Protection of Nature. She does not hold back about how men did not believe in the cooperatives potential. Thiaw, the current Cooperative President, turns the discussion […]
Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione (Federation of Cooperation in Trentino)
The Federation of Cooperation in Trentino promotes the development of the cooperative movement, coordinates and enhances the activities of cooperatives, and helps direct their actions to most effectively respond to the needs of the most vulnerable groups in society in the spirit of cooperation and mutuality. In this way the Federation aims to contribute to […]
Sardica Logistica Multiservice
The Sardica Multiservice Logistics is active in the commercial and business services, including import / export, new technologies (energy, water, environment).
Cheese, Soccer Balls and Sweaters: Worth Their Salt
Only a generation ago a single salt mine offered the vast majority of job opportunities for the people of Salinas de Guaranda, Ecuador. This salt mine was not a cooperative. It did not offer collective governance to the workers. Owned by a single man, the workers received low wages in unsafe conditions with no hope […]
Supporting Quebec’s Strong Cooperative Society
Did you know that over a third of all the maple syrup consumed in the world is marketed by cooperatives in Quebec? The Canadian province is a hotspot for cooperatives, with a remarkably developed cooperative sector, both in terms of numbers and diversity. Cooperatives play leading roles in industries like financial services, insurance, agriculture, food, […]
Cooperative of Regional Development of Montreal-Laval
The Regional Development Cooperative of Montreal-Laval is a private organization, governed by the Cooperatives Act of Quebec. Our mission is to promote cooperatives and to provide cooperatives with services, expertise and appropriate support, especially to those related to production and work. We work on five cooperative models: Workers cooperatives, Consumers cooperatives, Producers cooperatives, Workers shareholder […]
Becoming a Coop
Dan Rosenberg and Addie Rose Holland are the proud owners of Real Pickles in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Real pickles produces raw naturally fermented pickles made from local, organic and sustainably farmed produce. Every year, Dan and Addie purchase about 100,000 pounds of certified organic vegetables within a 50 mile radius and transform it into six different […]
CADIAI Social Cooperative
A social cooperative founded in Bologna in 1974, which provides social, healthcare, and educational services to the public system for children, the disabled and the elderly. CADIAI’s mission is to ensure stable employment for our members and the best economic, social and professional conditions as well as qualifying training programmes for our employees; to base […]
Sustainable business regardless of the social system
Mongolia boasted 225 large collective farms before the Democratic revolution of 1990. From that point on most of the collective farms were privatised and then collapsed. The collective farms that did survive this process were few and each re-organised into a co-operative-based model. The largest of these primary agricultural co-operatives is called Buyan-Undral and is […]
Buyan-Undral Cooperative
Buyan-Undral primary agricultural cooperative is the one of the largest member cooperatives of National Association of Mongolian Agricultural cooperatives. The Mongolian Government and Local Government have valued the activities of Buyan-Undral highly and granted many awards and premiums to this cooperative, including in 2000 Best cooperative award of National Association of Mongolian Agricultural cooperatives /NAMAC/, […]