Empowering members, transforming communities, and unlocking investor opportunities in palm oil, poultry, and piggery enterprises.
In a world increasingly powered by artificial intelligence, NVIDIA is playing a defining role — not simply riding the AI wave, but helping build the infrastructure underneath it.
Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want is Africa’s blueprint and master plan for transforming the continent into the global powerhouse of the future. It is a bold strategic framework designed to deliver inclusive and sustainable development, while embodying Pan-African ideals of unity, self-determination, freedom, progress, and collective prosperity.
Building a Better World Together: Cooperative Contributions to the SDGs is a policy brief series developed in support of the 2025 UN International Year of Cooperatives to showcase how cooperatives drive progress across the Sustainable Development Goals.
Africa will not be saved by pity. It will rise through cooperative power, shared ownership, and collective responsibility. This is not an appeal. It is a declaration. Charities, non-Profits and humanitarian organizations are funding dependency rather than development.
We’re thrilled to invite you to meet us at the 4th Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2025), happening from 4th – 10th September 2025 in Algiers, Algeria.
These tariffs, which include duties of up to 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum, have triggered cost increases across multiple industries. Cooperatives—especially those in agriculture, manufacturing, and retail—are among the hardest hit, as they typically operate with minimal margins and rely on international supply chains to remain viable and competitive.
The Western Canada co-op federation reported total sales of $11.9bn at its recent AGM, resulting in net earnings of $297m for the last 12 months
As the world unites to commemorate International Women’s Day 2025 under the theme ‘Accelerate Action’, Ensign Cooperative proudly joins the global movement to drive meaningful progress toward gender parity.
“The public thinks that people who work in the informal economy are lazy people who get social benefits. It is not the case, we all work. EcoPop was created to raise awareness of all the work the different sector of the popular economy does,”
The Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) is a multi-stakeholder partnership of global public and private institutions that champions and supports people-centred and self-sustaining cooperative enterprises as leaders in sustainable development.
In recent months co-operative organisations have one by one quit Twitter, something we at Co-op News are also considering. Those still on the platform continue to post but their co-op content is not controversial enough to make it into users’ feeds.
The Business Support for Co‑ops programme, a partnership between Co-operatives UK and the Co-op Bank, has given direct support to 500 co-ops in nine years, a report reveals.
The co-op is looking to raise £700,000, with members of the community invited to invest from as little as £50 for a stake in the co-operative. NLCE says the offer has an expected return of 5%.
The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) hosted its Global Cooperative Conference in New Delhi, India, in the last week of November, with the theme Cooperatives Build Prosperity For All.
African Union (AU) member states have unanimously adopted a 10-year strategy on the social and solidarity economy (SSE), to increase its identity, visibility, and recognition.
Community retailer Lincolnshire Co-op has hailed “a positive year of trading” in its results for the year to 7 September, with growth of 6.1% bringing the society’s turnover (sales excluding VAT) to £375.6m.
Awasthi is the managing director of the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (Iffco), which is owned by 35,000 co-operative societies across the country.
The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) wrapped up its global conference yesterday with the adoption of the New Delhi Action Agenda on the Future of Cooperatives.
The acquisition of the Co-op Bank by the Coventry Building Society, which will return it to the mutual sector, has been given regulatory approval. Under the deal, the bank will continue to operate as a separate business for some time after completion
This winter, East of England Co-op is raising funds for 189 local charities and organisations, through is Local Giving community programme.