• In January, International Co-operative Alliance director general, Charles Gould, was in Beijing for the 2016 kickoff of the B20, the business advisory group to the G20, which China hosts this year. Here is his update...

  • Fourteen co-operators from across China visited Israel for an exchange initiative. The members, from the All China Federation of Marketing Co-operative, took a course on the Israeli co-operative experience. They visited Kibbutz Shefayim and the Milout Secondary...

  • Co-operatives in China are on the rise, especially in the agricultural sector. As Chinese new year (19 February) approaches, Zhang Xiaoshan takes a closer look at what is prompting such growth – and what the...

  • The world’s largest global milk processor and dairy exporter, Fonterra Co-operative Group, will develop a dairy farm hub in China. Fonterra, a farmer-owned co-operative from New Zealand, is the world’s largest global milk processor and...

  • Coop Global Sourcing Limited (CGS) joins the International Co-operative Alliance as an Associate Member. CGS is a joint sourcing company for European co-operatives that is based in China, Vietnam and Bangladesh. They serve consumer co-operatives...

  • 10 August 2013 Australian agricultural co-operatives recently hosted a Chinese trade and research delegation under the Australia-China Agricultural Cooperation Agreement (ACACA) aimed at strengthening bil

  • The following article was written by Joanne Grisanti, Merchandising Manager at River Valley Market Food Coop, Northampton, MA In march, I had the good fortune to visit the tea lands of Darjeeling, India with an...

  • Two prominent speakers addressed participants this morning at the International Summit of Cooperatives; Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business and President of Roubini Global Economics, and Michael Spence...

  • It's important to know that people from certain countries must have a visitor’s visa, and the processing time varies considerably from one country to another. In Brazil, for example, it takes 21 days to process...

  • Not Business As Usual: Getting their attention, ICA Director-General reports back from Beijing and Vietnam: charlesgould: Co-operatives received some important high-level recognition this week when ICA’s President, Dame Pauline Green, and I were able to...