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The Credit for Agriculture Producers scheme hopes to improve the quality of the financial services and…
Could Amazon Mechanical Turk workers own artificial intelligence technology?
Automation threatens to wipe out millions of jobs – and even those teaching tasks to computers…
Former head of Sunkist growers co-op Russell Hanlin Snr dies at 84
A leading figure in global trade, he led the co-op for 20 years and also served…
Farmer-owned co-op Land O’Lakes joins up with Vermont Creamery
The Minnesota-based co-op says it will use its rural values and marketing expertise to bring the…
Co-founder of outdoor leisure co-op REI dies aged 107
Mary Anderson and her husband set up the venture in 1938 so their friends could get…
Leisure co-op REI submit plans for new state-of-the-art campus
Outdoor leisure co-op REI has submitted designs to local planning authorities for a new headquarters that is “accessible, sustainable,…
Co-op businesses included in list of great places to work
Navy Federal Credit Union, outdoor leisure co-op REI and employee-owned Publix Supermarkets have been included on…
Villagers get themselves online by forming high-speed broadband co-op
Residents of a village in Nova Scotia, Canada, decided they’d had enough of slow internet speeds…
How do we build an alternative economy from the ruins of the financial crisis?
Another Economy is Possible, edited by Manuel Castells (Polity Books, 2017) As the dust began to settle after…
Travel co-ops and the rise of sustainable tourism
Every year, over one billion international tourists pack their bags to go on holiday, creating millions…
Canadian body opens applications for co-op research scholarships
Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) is welcoming applications for scholarship programmes aimed at co-operative researchers. The first…
