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18 May '13

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Global NewsToday is UN International Water Day

The UN’s World Water Day today gives us a chance to reflect on what a precious resource water is to all of us on a daily basis and begin to think about how we are going to ...

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Gay Lea shows its support the International Year, which includes a butter liner graphic

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CanadaCanadian dairy co-op to "spread" the word about IYC

Thousands of Canadian consumers will soon get a taste of the International Year of Co-operatives when they spread butter on their toast, thanks to Gay Lea Foods, a major ...

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Toru Takanarita interviews the president of a seafood processing plant in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, that was damaged in the disaster. Photo: Takeshi Yamawaki

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Global NewsSpirit of co-operation is needed for a better society

For three years, I lived and worked as a reporter in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, which suffered massive damage in the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. As I visited ...

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Streets of Rikuzentakala City (Iwate Prefecture) erased without a trace by the tsunami; JA Ofunato Takata Branch visible in background (March 21)

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JapanBy power of co-operation we can recover from Japan's disaster

It has been one year since the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, a disaster of unprecedented proportions that claimed many precious lives and at the same time ...

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The then JA-Zenchu Chairman Mamoru Moteki and JA Group representatives presenting a letter of protest to TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu (left)

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JapanDealing with the Japan nuclear power plant accident

The enormous impact of the accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant prolonged evacuation of farmers and other ...

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MexicoPart II – El Triunfo: A Land Before Time

By Todd Caspersen, Director of Purchasing Photos by Joe Driscoll, Equipment Guru El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve protects cloud forests on the upper slopes of the Sierra Madre, as ...

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David Sloan Wilson believes co-operation is the key to evolution. Picture: Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University

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United KingdomCo-operation, not selfishness, is the key to human evolution

Co-operation is the most important driving force in nature according to a prominent American bioligist.

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Global NewsHAFED growing by leaps and bounds

Dynamism of the cooperative sector in Haryana is unmistakable. Most of the cooperative organizations in the state are continuously growing.  The Haryana state cooperative supply and marketing federation (HAFED) , for example, has notched up  a net profit of nearly 41 crore on a turnover of 5,489 crore during 2010. Hafed will have a turnover of 6,000 crore during 20-12. It is this organization that mainly supplies inputs like fertilizer, pesticides and seeds to farmers. Being the largest food ...

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Global NewsParliament's adoption of food waste report a step in the right direction

On 19 January, the European Parliament adopted the report “How to avoid food wastage: strategies for a more efficient food chain in the EU”, approved by a large ...

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SlovakiaSlovakia: when a natural disaster strikes

After the earthquakes that hit Japan and Spain last year, CICOPA wants to give a little hope to the people who have suffered from natural disasters by sharing the story of Eurokov Orlov, a worker cooperative active in the construction sector in Slovakia. - News / Europa, Portada

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