What do meat, poultry, pork, dairy and pizza have to do with each other? In the city of Chapecó the production and sale of these products sustain lives. Dairy and pizza are some of the 700-strong product range of one of Brazil’s most successful cooperatives, Coopercentral Aurora, whose membership extends to more than 60,000 farmers. […]

Coopercentral Aurora is one of Brazil’s most successful agricultural cooperatives. Since eight cooperatives got together in 1969 they have industrialised their production and expanded into a large scale agro-industrial business.