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The International Year of Cooperatives may have just ended, but the Cooperative Decade (2011-2020) has only just begun. As Dame Pauline Green, President of the International Co-operative Alliance, observed during the Co-operatives United event in Manchester, UK in late October, "This international year has seen the global cooperative movement come together in a way which was previously unimaginable. Now our challenge is to build on this hard work in a way which garners results. We now are in a ...

Last week saw the culmination of the UN International Year of Cooperatives with the Cooperatives United World Festival in Manchester, UK. Over 10,000 delegates (including 9,000 from the general public) attended the Festival which was another inspirational event that brought cooperators together from over 90 countries. The event included the ICA Expo which was targeted at both business to business cooperatives and also to create awareness of the diversification of the cooperative business model ...