Cooperatives
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned enterprise". Cooperatives are democratically owned by their members, with each member having one vote in electing the board of directors. Cooperatives may include: businesses owned and managed by the people who use their services (a consumer cooperative) organizations managed by the people who work there (worker cooperatives) multi-stakeholder or hybrid cooperatives that share ownership between different stakeholder groups. For example, care cooperatives where ownership is shared between both care-givers …
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Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network · 4 May 2024 English
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in strengthening the many farmer and producer cooperatives, which would have preserved the land and the …
ICRIER: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations · 2 May 2024 English
In this context, the objective of the present study is to estimate the harvest and postharvest losses of wheat, paddy, maize, and soybean in India and to trace the determinants …
storage loss in different organizations including Cooperatives, FCI godowns, and Warehousing corporations, … were about 6 percent, and during the storage in cooperatives were approximately 5 percent. Losses during … were substantial during harvest and storage in cooperatives, which accounted for 93.2 percent of total losses … storage losses. Nonetheless, storage capacity of cooperatives increased only marginally in the last decade …
WIEGO: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing · 1 May 2024 English
This report draws on the experiences and efforts of organizations of waste pickers to develop and make data on them available to policymakers and others. It describes the data collection …
waste pickers as workers. Trade unions and cooperatives of waste pickers as well as independent waste … cooperative upgraded to a special software for credit cooperatives. Since SWaCH provides a service to citizens …
FrameWorks Institute · 30 April 2024 English
As we re-evaluate work in the wake of the pandemic, a large segment of the working population is choosing to work from home, citing improvements to work-life balance.5 The number …
weakening child labor laws). — Incentivizing worker cooperatives and alternatives to corporate ownership. — Reforming …
Option consommateurs · 30 April 2024 French
1.1 Une implantation responsable des recommandations du projet de l'OCDE sur la lutte contre l'érosion de la base d'imposition et le transfert de bénéfices Certaines modifications apportées à la Loi …
nouveaux logements construits par certaines coopératives d'habitation à des fins de location. Cette initiative … la TPS sur les logements construits par les coopératives, une forme de logement abordable qui contribue …
La Fabrique Ecologique · 30 April 2024 French
La colère avait atteint son paroxysme en janvier 2024 : les agriculteurs avaient organisé des barrages à proximité de Paris dénonçant des rémunérations insuffisantes et les difficultés à produire face …
groupes. En Haute-Savoie, par exemple, des petites coopératives laitières ont résisté face à l’installation … Le Monde, « Au pays du reblochon, les petites coopératives laitières s’organisent face au géant Lactalis … 2022/09/27/au-pays-du-reblochon-les-petites-cooperatives-laitieres-s- organisent-face-au-geant-lactalis_6143371_3234 …
CCG: Climate Compatible Growth · 30 April 2024 English
Colombia from the 2000s onwards, an As explored in the first Knowledge Brief in this example of how utilities and loan providers series, countries where electricity has been can design …
required support for help of loans through local cooperatives. This the development of supply chains of electrical … MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES role savings and credits cooperatives (SACCOs) and low appliance ownership. Adding …
Jamestown Foundation · 26 April 2024 English
Cheng Lin (程琳), Convener of the National Security Discipline Review Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and former Secretary of the Party Committee and President of …
ethnic groups to large operators or government cooperatives, subjecting the now landless Uyghurs more readily …
StAR: Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative · 26 April 2024 English
12.683 of July 2012 c) Definition of “beneficial owner(s)” of legal entities (This includes relevant thresholds for equity ownership, voting rights, and other forms of control.) In Brazil, the term …
publicly held company or non-profit entity and cooperatives are excluded from the provisions of the main … Participação) Participação) Cooperatives (Cooperativas) Brazilian Cooperatives Law (Lei das Cooperativas) …
ISET-International · 26 April 2024 English
To assess the quantitative impact of this success, the Mexican Red Cross identified the number of registered brigades at the time of reporting. [...] ISET-Vietnam through the Alliance, covered the …
for more information. Local governments and cooperatives in project locations have requested more information … companies.” Meeting with representatives of local cooperatives on Index-based Flood Insurance, Nepal © Practical …
