Rwanda is Africa’s most densely populated country. More than 1,000 people occupy each square kilometer of the East African nation. On top of that, in Rwanda 56 per cent of those people live below the poverty line. Co-operatives are an important part of the nation’s food security strategy because sustaining the population from the available […]
Reversing the Hidden Environmental Costs of Olive Oil
Olive oil is an essential element of the Mediterranean diet, but these days it is also hugely popular in countries where it is not a traditional ingredient, because of its flavor and health benefits. But large-scale, industrial olive oil production brings many negative environmental impacts. Intensive olive farming is causing widespread soil erosion and desertification […]
La Flor de la Alpujarra
La Flor de la Alpujarra is an organic olive-oil cooperative seeking to encourage sustainable, small-scale olive cultivation in southern Spain.
U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC)
OCDC brings together organizations committed to building a more prosperous world through cooperatives. Its mission is to champion, advocate and promote effective international cooperative development. OCDCs members are: ACDI/VOCA, CHF International, Communications Cooperative International, Cooperative Resources International, HealthPartners, Land O’Lakes International Development, National Cooperative Business Association, National Rural Electric Association and the World Council of […]
Customers Never Complain; But Never Repeat
Customers Never Complain; But Never Repeat The Chairman of the Methodist Co-operative Society Ltd, John Cheong, often uses the above phrase to make light of the seldomspokenof bereavement industry and yet in all seriousness, it is this compassionate role that one of its subsidiaries, Hosanna Bereavement Services Pte Ltd, has been providing to Christian families […]
Hosanna Bereavement Services Pte Ltd
Hosanna Bereavement Services is a subsidiary of the Methodist Cooperative Society Ltd. a one-stop centre for bereavement and funeral related services; such as transportation, embalming, casket supply, and other related funeral services including food, drink, tentage, mobile toilet, press announcements, photography, as well as other ancillary services like arrangements for the supply of urns and […]
Frances Crédit Coopératif leads the way in ethical banking
Crédit Coopératif, one of Frances leading co-operative banks, was founded in 1893. It finds its origins in the Social Economy movement of the late 19th century that led to the creation of today’s large mutual banking groups, when the industrial revolution and early globalisation led populations to organise themselves into cooperatives. These values and this […]
Crédit Coopératif
Crédit Coopératif is a co-operative bank whose mission is to contribute to the development of enterprises of the social economy, associations, co-operatives, business groups, social entrepreneurs and charitable bodies, in an appropriate response to their needs and co-production of services. As a pioneer of ethical and solidarity finance, Crédit Coopératif provides its expertise to serve […]
Fruit of the Vine, Stem and Stalk
A few years ago a group of Nicaraguans decided that when life gave them fruit they would make wine. They also make juices and jams. In 1986 an informal organization of workers began to gather forgotten fruit from farms near the bustling capitol of Managua. They sold that produce in local markets and reinvested profits […]
Cooperativa Agroindustrial Chinantlan
Cooperativa Chinantlan is dedicated to the economic and social growth of community, with a special focus on the women who live in this region of Nicaragua. The coop brings together employees from country and city to grow, harvest, transport, process and sell fruit. Currently, the cooperative produces wine, juice and jam from locally grown products.