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Securing livelihoods while preserving Palestine’s art of embroidery 

The practice is being kept alive in a refugee camp by a women's co-op which has…

Songs, women and collective struggle: Sewa’s journey over 50 years 

Semanti Chakladar and Rachna Chandira take a look at how songwriting has been used to strengthen…

India launches co-op taxi service to take on Uber and Ola

Announced by the government in a bid to improve services, Sakhar Taxi Cooperative is backed by…

ICA Asia Pacific partners with Heifer International to combat hunger

The collaboration sees Heifer International shift “from supporting individual households to addressing the broader structural barriers”

India’s only Telugu-language co-op journal turns two

Fortnightly Cooperative Land was launched by a group of journalists after they lost their jobs in…

Co-op law amended in Jordan

The new rules include an internationally recognised definition of co-ops, measures on women's and youth participation,…

The secret behind Korean women divers’ oxygen-free diving

The women of Jeju Island, who sell their catch through fishery co-ops, have undergone centuries of…

Japan’s legislators adopt resolution calling for promotion of co-ops

Japan’s legislature the National Diet has adopted a resolution calling for the promotion of co-ops, to…

New UK trade deals: what do they mean for co-ops?

Reaction from the UK National Farmers Union and the US National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

How kibbutzim are supporting displaced members

'Each kibbutz is a co-operative, and the Kibbutz Movement is a co-operative of co-operatives'

Palestine co-ops call for international support

'Many co-operatives in Gaza have been completely destroyed and we need to rebuild what has been…

FAO works with Tajikistan co-ops to push agrarian reform

The work included targeted support for four co-ops and work with the government to reform national…