List/Grid Tag Archives: Food Security
Cooperatives as Business Models of the Future
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 26 2012 (IPS) – When the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) concluded last week, some of the overwhelming success stories highlighted at a two-day interactive session came…
UN chief praises potential of cooperatives to empower communities and combat hunger
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised the role that cooperatives play as catalysts of inclusive development and their capacity to empower communities by creating jobs and generating incomes. During a…
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…
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 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…
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…
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,…
UN official urges focus on rural development to lift millions out of poverty
A top United Nations official today committed to pull up to 90 million people out of poverty by 2015 and help small farmers and all those in rural areas to…
Panel Discussion on Unleashing Rural Women’s Voice to End Hunger and Poverty
A panel discussion on Unleashing Rural Women’s Voice to end Hunger and Poverty will be held on Friday, 2 March 2012 from 11:30 am – 12:45 pm at the Conference…
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…
