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African Ministers Agree to Support Cooperatives
Africa’s tenth Ministerial Conference on the theme of co-operatives was held a month ago in Rwanda. The meeting brought together 14 ministers from across Africa to focus on ways of…
Cooperatives: Empowering women farmers, improving food security
Rural cooperatives and farmers’ organizations play a crucial role in the eradication of hunger and poverty. One of the ways they achieve this is through their vocation to empower small…
International Year of Cooperatives Closes with Special Observance
New York, 19 November-Governments, civil society and representatives of cooperatives, from various sectors, meet today at United Nations Headquarters to mark the closing of the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC)…
Cooperatives: an alternative to austerity measures
In these times of economic uncertainty and political and social tensions in a number of regions throughout the world, people are subject to destabilizing and divisive austerity measures. In Europe,…
Global Worker Cooperative Day set on November 16, 2012 in Marseille
A full day of exchanges and experiences of the diversity of the models and practices of worker cooperation across the world, debates and analyses on the urgent challenges stemming from…
What financial cooperatives can teach the big banks
GENEVA (ILO News) – While many big banks struggled for survival during the global economic crisis, networks of financial cooperatives – customer owned banks – weathered the storm and came…
ICA data show world’s top 300 co-operatives have a turnover of around $2 trillion
The world’s top 300 co-operatives have a turnover of around $2 trillion, according to data released by the ICA today. The data forms part of the brand new World Co-operative…
Cooperatives crucial allies in fight against hunger
One of the only chances small-scale food producers have to gain competitive access to local and global markets is by banding together in cooperatives, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva…
Focus on branding of cooperatives says ICA Director General Gould
The visiting Director General of ICA Charles Gould emphasized the branding of cooperatives as a viable model in a meeting with the top cooperators of India in New Delhi on…
The cooperative movement and operational excellence share the same values!
This is the first of five articles that will examine the world of cooperatives through the lens of operational excellence. The author, Éponine Pauchard, an operational excellence consultant, offers insight…
