The theme for World Food Day 2012 is Agricultural cooperatives - key to feeding the world, coupled with the United Nations declaration of 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives. One step in achieving food security is to support and [...]

The theme for World Food Day 2012 is Agricultural cooperatives - key to feeding the world, coupled with the United Nations declaration of 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives. One step in achieving food security is to support and invest [...]

Agriculture is the main source of employment and income in rural areas of developing countries, where the majority of the world’s poor and hungry people live. Rural women play crucial roles in agricultural activities and in increasing food and nutrition [...]

More than a billion of the world’s poorest people rely on forests and trees on farms to provide food, energy and cash income (FAO, 2012). Forests are also vital renewable resources for industry, and they provide globally important environmental services. [...]

The following case studies show how fisheries cooperatives contribute to improving the conditions of small-scale fishers around the globe