Africa
Water sales help a million Africans
For every litre of Fairbourne Springs sold in co-operative and Somerfield stores around the UK, 3p is donated by the Co-operative Retail Trading...
Co-operative Awards winner: Shared Interest
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, it currently lends more than £33 million a year, helping to tackle poverty in 36 different countries. ...
DIY stores build a nationwide co-op
Mica is a co-operatively-owned chain of more than 60 independent hardware stores based in all parts of the country. Mica actually has its roots in...
Fairtrade champions World Cup wineries
The Fairtrade Foundation is encouraging football fans to switch their usual drink to Fairtrade to support farmers, workers and their communities in...
World bank points to global initiatives
He spoke of the work of the World Bank in tackling poverty in the world’s poorest countries, observing that 2.6 billion people still have to...
Fairtrade gets fruity
Organised by AgroFair — the company that connects the farmers with stores like Tesco, Sainsbury's and The Co-operative — the group joined...
A banana-a-day keeps death at bay
Each time a banana is sold at Co-op stores a portion of that money — dubbed the Fairtrade premium — goes back to the farmer. At Volta...
Asia
As the crisis deepened over the uncertainty of stabilising Japan's nuclear reactors, the International Co-operative Alliance launched the Japan...
The 9.0 magnitude earthquake occurred 130km off the east coast Oshika Peninsula on March 11th, which caused tsunami waves of up to 10 metres that...
Many small businesses are on the point of ruin because their credit lines are drying up. This might seem surprising, given the fast rate of...
ICAExpo 2010 — organised by the International Co-operative Alliance — is centered around the Movement’s principle of co-operating...
The deal, which enhances the College’s growing international profile, was completed after Chair Paul Sommerfeld travelled to Bahrain recently...
CFS is the first British company to participate in the programme in response to the growing e-waste problem in the developing world from computers...
The white bunting comes from Fairtrade cotton which has been hand-woven in the village of K. V. Kuppam, India. Fabrics used by Bishopston start as a...
North America
Les coopératives ont accordé le droit de vote aux femmes près d'un siècle avant la plupart des parlements de la...
Por primera vez México es sede del máximo evento cooperativo mundial, donde se están iniciando a nivel mundial los festejos del Año Internacional de...
The competition, organised by International Co-operative Alliance, is around the theme of “Co-operative enterprises build a better world...
Halifax — Créer des liens coop. C’est le thème du Congrès qui a réuni le mouvement coopératif canadien à Halifax du 27 au 29 juin dernier....
Commenting on the co-op’s sixth annual social audit report, Chair Kate Priestley said: “This investment has led to £7m of producer...
And now a new television series will draw further attention to the Movement as it follows one man’s efforts to launch The People’s...
Chief Al Lameman and other senior members of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation are in the UK to enlist support for their legal proceedings and to highlight...
Oceania
The 6.3-magnitude quake struck the city of Christchurch, on the country's south island, on February 22nd.
The Alternative Vote or Preferential Voting has been used in Australia since 1918. In 2007 Kevin Rudd became Prime Minister when Labour won...
Last month, representatives of the Fairtrade Foundation and international Fairtrade Labelling Organisation (FLO) held a workshop in...
THERE is myth and there is reality. One of the secrets of a happy life is not to confuse the two. It is a lesson that one trade union...
A Hamilton-based farmer co-operative has come up trumps in NZ Marketing magazine's National Marketing Awards, because it listened...
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Four staff from Midcounties Co-operative have been chosen to carry the Olympic Flame as part of the Olympics relay around the country this summer...
Pendant la prochaine Semaine des Coopératives qui aura lieu à Bruxelles du 23 au 27 Avril, les banques coopératives...
Campus Coopératives est la première école d’été internationale dédiée aux jeunes cré...
La France, acteur majeur de l'Année internationale des coopératives A l'occasion d'une conférence de presse organisée jeudi 12 janvier, COOP FR, l'...
La ville de Lambersart a confié à la coopérative Notre Foyer la réalisation d'une opération d'accession sociale à la propriété en zone ANRU. L'...
L'onu a proclamé 2012 Année Internationale des Coopératives avec pour signature « Les coopératives, des...
L'onu a déclaré 2012 « Année internationale des coopératives » reconnaissant ainsi la contribution du...
Entre el 27 de noviembre y 2 de diciembre de 2011 se realizará una pasantía sobre Balance Social que incluirá la visita a organizaciones...
Elected on the promise of equitably redistributing the country’s massive oil wealth across the population, his administration has...
Day 1 OK, so I hadn't really wanted to travel to Colombia. It wasn't the country's high ranking among the world...
THE Co-operative Group is more than half way towards its pledge to double the size of its own-brand range of Fairtrade products to 62 by...
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