At the successful conclusion of the training
The ICA-AP regional office is implementing a Capacity Building project for the development of co-operatives with support of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, under the Government of Japan’s...
Members of the coffee growers’ co-operative
The participants attending the ICA-MAFF training course prepare an action-plan which is reviewed and approved for implementation. The Capacity Building project has a component of follow-up visits to two...
In March 2016, the ICA and the European Union signed a Framework Partnership Agreement (Europe Aid/150-053/C/ACT/Multi) to implement a multi-year and multi-country development programme aimed at benefitting and advancing co-operatives worldwide. The...
The Asia-Pacific Co-operative Development Conference (#APCDC2018) was organized on “Building Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships on Sustainable Development” in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from 27-28 Feb 2018. It was co-organized by the International Cooperative Alliance...
Mr. Willem Paulus
Given your thesis on the subject of member involvement, what do you think is the key role member involvement plays in a co-operative?
A: Commitment is the reason for the existence of farmer organizations. Commitment comes in many...
The ICA Global Assembly in Kuala Lumpur in 2017 (#KL2017) was a landmark global confluence of cooperators, that also marked the reconstitution of the Executive Committee of the Global Youth Network of the ICA. Sébastien Chaillou, former president of...
Historically the roots of co-operatives in India can be traced back to the end of the 19th century, when farmers decided to ‘pool in their meagre resources for solving common problems related to credit, supplies of inputs and marketing of agricultural...
(L-R) Jessica Soto (We Effect, The Philippines), Mohd.Abdul Farzan Razzak (ILO, Sri Lanka), Sylvia Paraguya (NATCCO, The Philippines) and Anthony Taylor (BCCM, Australia) during the Panel on Improving Access to Basic Goods and Services
The Asia-Pacific...