producer cooperatives

4 publications

• The Interconnection between Ecology and Direct Democracy in Alternative Food Networks

  Giorgos Gritzas, Eirini-Erifyli Tzekou, Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2023

• Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America.

  Gabriel Metcalf, St Martin’s Press, United States, November 2015

• Financing our Foodshed. Growing Local Food with Slow Money.

  Carol Peppe Hewitt, New Society Publishers, United States, April 2013

• Humanizing-the-Economy. Co-operatives in the Age of Capital.

  John Restakis, New society Publishers, United States, September 2010

10 Videos

• Audio : What can the social and solidarity economy do for recovery?

  ILO The Future of Work podcasts, May 31, 2022

  May 2022

  BIT/ILO

• Ideas Factory: Baba Residences in Bulgaria - interview of Yanina Taneva

  Video of RIPESS Europe member

  November 2020

  RIPESS Europe, IDEAS Factory

• Queen bees: how honey co-ops help Afghan women take control

  December 2016

• Interview of Bernard Ranaweera - President and Producer of the tea cooperative SOFA (Sri Lanka)

  November 2016

• Food Lab Detroit: Building Up Local Food Entrepreneurs

  September 2016

• Le Galline Felici - Sicilian Producer Consortium

  February 2016

• Oma Maa

  December 2015

• South Philly Garden Tour 2015

  December 2015

• Oikocredit in Ivory Coast

  6ta Academia sobre ESS (Puebla, México), 23-27 Nov 2015)

  November 2015

• The Co-op Cred Program Video

  Parc -Toronto

  June 2014

11 case studies

• “Women’s cooperatives are a privileged place of expression and empowerment” Interview with Sabine Martel

  Ripess Intercontinental Newsletter - March 2021

  March 2021

  RIPESS Intercontinental

• Explainer: Co-operatives in North and East Syria – developing a new economy

  irst published by Rojava Information Center on 8 November, 2020

  NES Economy Bureau, November 2020

  Solidarity Economy Association

• Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 - Cooperative contributions to SDG 2

  ILO Briefs

  October 2018

  BIT/ILO

• Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 Cooperative contributions to SDG 12

  ILO Briefs

  June 2018

  BIT/ILO

• No-Middlemen Cooperative of Galatsi

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  No-Middlemen Cooperative of Galatsi, 2018

  TNI

• Coopérative Fédérative des Acteurs de l’Horticulture du Sénégal (CFAHS)

  Call for initiatives MBM 2017

  October 2017

• Community supported agriculture : Fleeing Vesuvius

  Simply Good Food, New Zealand

  John McKay, February 2012

• Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farms, an example of biodynamic farm businesses owned by 600 local shareholders.(East Sussex, UK)

  Case studies Forum Synergies

  2012

• Viva sol Lithuania, an association of cheese eaters and producers that encourages the settlement of small farmers and artisans in rural Lithuania.

  Case studies Forum Synergies

  July 2011

• The Jaglea family farm, seeking sustainability at the crossroad of tradition and innovation in the Carpathian, Romania.

  Case studies Forum Synergies

  June 2011

• Women in the Ratnagiri Cooperative in Maharashtra, India

  Nalini NAYAK, A. VIJAYAN, September 2001

  ICSF

5 Analyses/working papers/articles

• ANSERJ Vol 9, No 1 (2018)

  Canadian Journal of nonprofit and social economy research/ Revue Canadienne de Recherche sur les OSBL et l’économie sociale

  AA.VV., 2018

• Addressing Rural Crisis in Developing Countries Lessons from the New Rural Reconstruction Programme in China

  South-South Dispatch 02

  Tiejun Wen, January 2015

• Food Activism and Antimafia Cooperatives in Contemporary Sicily.

  Theodoros Rakopoulos, 2013

• Community participation through cooperatives in addressing basic services: The Philippine experience

  Paper presented at the United Nation’s Expert Group Meeting on Cooperatives, 28-30 April 2009, New York City

  Virginia A. Teodosio, April 2009

• The Cooperative District of Imola Forging the High Road to Globalization

  Matt Hancock, 2005

5 articles

• The perfect blend: how coffee farms in Costa Rica are mixing wildlife, agriculture and tourism

  Article of The Guardian, 10 May 2023

  Kevin Rushby, May 2023

  The Guardian

• The Power of Local Money for a Thriving Local Economy

  Article of Yes! Mafazine, 09/07/2021

  Jackie Brown, July 2021

• Greece : The resilience of Social Solidarity Economy during the pandemic

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - October 2020

  Fondation Heinrich Böll, Thessalonique, Grèce, October 2020

  RIPESS Europe, Heinrich Böll Foundation

• Czech coffee co-op aims to prove that co-operation works

  Article of the news coop, 6 october 2018

  Anca Voinea, October 2018

• The Co-op Farming Model Might Help Save America’s Small Farms

  Annelise Jolley, October 2018

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