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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…
Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition
Knowledge is only effective when it is shared and made available to the broadest possible range of people. This is especially true when aiming at effectively combating worldwide hunger and…
Online discussion: Enabling rural cooperatives and producer organizations to thrive as sustainable business enterprises
The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition is launching this online discussion to share experiences and identify the ideal external conditions that will enable cooperatives and producer organizations to…
Agricultural cooperatives – key to feeding the world
Agricultural cooperatives are the focus of World Food Day 2012. The official World Food Day theme, announced each spring by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),…
FAO opens new liaison office for agricultural cooperatives
Director-General calls cooperatives and producer organizations a key partner in achieving food security and ending hunger, poverty in the world 9 July 2012, Rome – FAO opened a new liaison…
Co-operatives Make a Better World: Remarks by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs
Remarks by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director, Employment Sector, ILO, at the Ministerial Breakfast on “Promoting productive capacity for sustainable livelihoods: the role of cooperatives” at ECOSOC, New York,…
Innovative financing for agriculture, food security and nutrition
Dear Forum Members, Reaching the goal to feed a growing world population is threatened by an important lack of investment in agriculture and a decreasing Official Development Assistance (ODA) in…
The future development of agricultural and food industry cooperatives is very important for Hungary
“The future development of agricultural and food industry cooperatives is especially important for Hungary because the country possesses extensive farmland areas of excellent quality, where production can look back on…
Cooperatives can offer solutions to hunger and poverty, President of Costa Rica says
The cooperative model offers unique solutions to “free people from hunger and poverty in a globalized world in which crises, including climate change, touch everyone”, President of Costa Rica Laura…
FAO Director-General calls on Latin America and the Caribbean to reaffirm commitment to eradicate hunger; Cites Virtues of Cooperatives
Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 28, 2011 -“Because we believe that hunger can and should be eradicated, we were the first region to meet this goal,” said Jose Graziano da Silva,…
