List/Grid Tag Archives: Sustainable Development
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…
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…
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…
Rio+20: UN Conference on Sustainable Development kicks off with call to action
More than 100 Heads of State and government today gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the start of the Rio+20 Conference, which seeks to shape new policies to promote…
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…
Co-operatives co-operate for a better economy, writes Co-operatives UK SG
Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, wrote this feature article for the Co-operative News, April 20th, 2012. The word that crops up most often in the speeches of government…
Cooperative Enterprise as a vehicle that promotes gender equality in the rural sector
The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day – Empower Rural Women, end poverty and hunger – highlights the need to tackle gender inequalities in the rural sector. Women living…
Panel Discussion on Rural Women: Are We Delivering on Our Commitments?
On the occasion of the 56th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women, the Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations and FAO, IFAD and DESA will…
Ban Ki-moon calls co-operatives a “unique and invaluable presence in today’s world”
In a video message played to an audience of over two thousand delegates attending the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) General Assembly in Cancun, Mexico, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon…
Leveraging Cooperatives, says Deputy Secretary-General, produces not only better business, but advances Sustainable Development
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the launch of the International Year of Cooperatives, 31 October, in New York: Today, we launch the International Year of Cooperatives. …
