The Co-cycle Project is a youth-led, bike-powered tour linking co-operatives across the US. The Co-cycle team kicked off their tour on June 1st in San Francisco, CA and crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to stop in at their first Bike Co-op – The Bicycle Works – outside San Anselmo, CA.
Overcoming the Legacy of the War
The Cua Lo beach in northern Vietnam, where the Lam River joins the South China Sea, is home to the Song Lam cooperative, which provides invaluable services to local fishermen like supplying petrol and diesel, repairing vessels, running training courses and purchasing and processing the catch. A member of the Nghe An Cooperative Provincial Alliance, […]
Song Lam Fisheries Production and Services and Processing Cooperative
The Song Lam cooperative provides general fisheries services and processing. Set up in 1971, the cooperative’s main activties relate to manufacturing, business services, and community development.
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 […]
FISHCOPFED – National Federation of Fishermens Cooperatives Ltd.
The National Federation of Fishermens Cooperatives Ltd. (FISHCOPFED) is a national level federation of fisheries cooperatives and the apex institution of Indian Fisheries Cooperative Movement. Its Motto is to promote and develop the fishery cooperative movement in India, to educate, guide and assist fishers in their efforts to build up and expand the fishery cooperative […]
A truly global website
Stories.coop has reached over 40,000 visits from almost 30,000 unique visitors! And these visitors to the website really are global – there has been at least 1 visitor from almost every country in the world as can be seen in the map. And our Stories of the Day have featured 55 countries so far from […]
TUCURA LTDA (COOTRANSTUR). A TRANSPORTERS CO-OPERATIVE
The transporters co-operative Tucura Ltda (COOTRANSTUR) was founded on 13th September 1976 and named after an indigenous tribe (Tucura) 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 of […]
Agricultural Central Trading Ltd
ACT is a farmer-owned company supplying essential farm inputs to farmers throughout England, Wales and Scotland. The co-ops considerable buying power coupled with low operating costs, means that they can pass substantial savings on to farmers. In the last eight years, £4,309,996 has been paid to shareholders as trading bonus. In selecting products to meet […]
Values based shellfish harvesting in Scotland
Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group (SSMG) believes in cooperation: Co-operation is very important within the rural communities and fundamental to the local culture where our members choose to live and work. Whilst many businesses are focused purely on profit, our members exist to provide long-term, sustainable employment within a friendly, local environment. Moral values, integrity and […]
Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group
A group of mussel and oyster farmers in the Highlands & Islands and Shetland formed the Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group in 1992 to develop UK sales and introduce added value products. Turnover has grown consistently to £11 million in 2010/11, and the product range is available in leading supermarkets.