Nearly 75% of Fairtrade producer organizations are cooperatives. The social and economic development opportunities created through cooperatives have a huge impact for small producers. Read about Kavokiva, a Fairtrade certified cooperative in Ivory Coast.
It was 116 years ago today that leaders of the co-operative movement gathered in London for the First International Co-operative Congress and founded the International Co-operative Alliance.
Those leaders in 1895, even with their great vision, could hardly have foreseen the scale and impact…
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Fairtrade producer organizations are cooperatives....economic development
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