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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…
Agricultural Cooperatives: Key to Feeding the World
Today, October 16, is World Food Day 2012. The focus of this year’s theme is agricultural cooperatives. The official World Food Day theme, announced each spring by the Food and Agriculture Organization…
Event to discuss the Role of Agricultural Cooperatives in enhancing Smallholder Farmers’ Entrepreneurship Skills
Over the past years international development organizations and governments have shown a renewed interest in cooperatives as autonomous, jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprises that can contribute to the development…
In Kenya, working hand in hand with the ILO to create cooperatives and jobs
Cooperatives provide some 100 million jobs around the world. Many of these jobs provide for basic human needs, such as the dairy farms of Kenya. Today, some 13,000 cooperatives in…
