In Africa, where the vast majority of farmers are smallholders (on average cultivating about 5 acres according to a 2018 estimate by the OECD), it makes sense for such farmers to combine their forces ...

The head of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF), a non-salaried honorary position, was found to receive ...

Trashigang—In the rugged hills and scattered farms of eastern Bhutan, an innovative agricultural co-operative is reshaping how farmers connect to markets. hundreds Dorji seen connectors, locked ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota — For recent immigrants and first-generation individuals in America looking to deploy their indigenous farming practices, oftentimes there's nowhere to turn. But in Rochester ...

Cooperative business models have long offered a unique method for organising economic activity by placing democratic control, shared ownership, and community benefit at the heart of enterprise. In the ...

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Saira, a woman farmer in the capital of northern Jawzjan province, has provided job and income opportunities for more than 200 women by establishing an“agricultural cooperative”.

The minister stressed that cooperative societies must be run professionally if they are to drive development and contribute ...

For decades cooperative has been a dirty word for many farmers across Africa, a term steeped in bitter memories of corruption, cronyism and mismanagement. Take Uganda, where cooperatives were ...

Last October, Japan’s powerful farm lobby, the Japan Agriculture Cooperative (JA), still had the clout to stall Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministerial negotiations between Japan and the U.S. over ...

Through the Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project II (LASED II), 17,000 hectares of residential and agriculture farm land has been allocated to 5,141 landless and land-poor ...