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South Korea launches support programme for small co-ops

Help is being offered with joint production and sales, technology development and marketing, and brand development

New Iffco plant heads list of co-op initiatives in Odisha, India

The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative has opened a new sulphuric acid plant as it continued to…

How Nepal’s co-ops are minimising caste-based discrimination

Sharmila Thakurii, founder and president of Nepal’s Female Economic Journalist Association (FEJA), reports on efforts to…

Co-operatives and the International Year of the Woman Farmer

Women make up nearly half of the world's agricultural workforce but face limited access to land,…

World’s largest dairy co-op Amul launches AI farm assistant

The tech is designed to give rural farmers in India personalised farming advice

India’s co-ops minister officially launches driver-owned Bharat Taxi

The platform is run as a multi-state co-op, with drivers joining as members, shareholders and co-owners

Underperforming co-ops will lose funding, says Malaysian government

Some co-ops have become overly reliant on government assistance, warned the minister for the sector

Kazakhstan launches action plan to boost agri co-op sector

Measures include state support, assessments of land and infrastructure, and provision of skills and training

Opinion: Co-operation, global politics and dangerous times

Peter Hunt of Mutuo warns the co-op movement to tread carefully when it comes to undemocratic…

Kuwaiti government rolls out digital surveillance of co-operatives

Co-ops are also being ordered to stock national produce under the Kuwaiti Farmers' Corner initiative

Philippine government loaned 2.8bn pesos to electric co-ops in 2025

The Philippines’ National Electrification Administration (NEA) says it loaned around PHP2.8bn (£35m) to 45 electric co-ops…

On the trail of the new social economy: Coop-Sapporo, May 2025

Henry Mintzberg and Masako Fujii take a tour of Coop-Sapporo, an affiliation of social enterprises on the…