For small-scale consumer societies competition makes survival difficult. That is why the Union of Consumer Societies of Buryatia (Burcoopsojuz) has consolidated its operations in order to improve the competitiveness of consumer cooperatives. This consolidation was successfully implemented by the consumer society, translated from Russian as Universal trade base of Burcoopsojuz. As of today, 100 shops, […]
Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative
Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative (TOCMC) was founded in 1993. Its members produce most of the organic cotton grown in the United States. Around thirty producers plant 10-15,000 acres of organic and transitional cotton. These family farms produce 6,000 – 15,000 bales a year. Yields are very rainfall dependent, varying significantly from year to year. […]
Mobile Technology Transforms 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 […]
National Cooperative Business Association
The National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) is the national association for cooperative businesses providing cross-sector education, support and advocacy to help start and grow co-ops across a variety of sectors, including agriculture, childcare, energy, financial service and credit unions, food distribution, healthcare, housing, retail and telecommunications. For nearly 100 years, our mission has been to […]
International Cooperative Fisheries Organisation
The ICFO contributes toward improving the living standards of fishermen and developing fisheries cooperatives in each of the ICFO member countries through conducting research and study on various problems concerning fisheries cooperative organizations, and promoting a better mutual understanding and economic cooperation among fisheries cooperatives.
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, […]
Co-operative Press Ltd
Co-operative Press Ltd, established in 1871, is the publisher of the printed Co-operative News in the UK – the oldest democratically controlled paper in the world – and the Global News Hub website for a global audience. The membership of Co-operative Press is broken down by individual members (307) and organisations (93), both groups have […]
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 […]
Reflex Szociális Szövetkezet – Reflex Social Cooperative
The Reflex Social Cooperative, was founded in 2008 and has been actively broadcasting programmes about local events since 2009. It operates 7TV Small Region Television, covering an area of about 500 square miles with a population of 32,000 in 11 towns and villages.
Raising awareness of 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, […]