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Malawi co-ops mark International Year of the Woman Farmer

Dr Sarah Alldred reports from the country's second National Cooperative Trade Fair

Help the Asia Pacific region track women’s leadership in co-operatives

The ICA office hopes the study will 'support advocacy, policy engagement, and stronger programme design'

Guatemala: Collective responses to common challenges

A look at the Association for Agricultural and Microenterprise Development, established in 1998 to improve the…

Co-op fund launched to lift women out of poverty in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria

Women have been urged to join co-operative societies so they can take part in the programme

Kenyan tea and coffee co-operatives tackle child labour

A training programme for farmers and co-operative leaders forms part of a wider effort to eliminate…

Saccos can improve financial inclusion for refugees and migrants, says report

The study, from Woccu and Accosca, says regulatory barriers need to be cleared to help the…

Co-op banking of the African diaspora has implications beyond finance

A study of the informal co-op banks and rotating savings and credit associations (Roscas) used by…

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,…

Minnesota worker co-ops share their responses to ICE clampdown

'Some co-operatives and organisations are working together, building power and supporting their community in this time…

Co-op Group launches toolkit to help businesses close gender pay gap

It covers areas such as hiring, menopause and menstrual health support, flexible working, parental and carers’…

Community land trusts: Building a different kind of wealth

How the model is protecting US neighbourhoods from property speculation and gentrification