The period from 1990 to 2025/2050 will most likely be a period of little peace, little stability, and little legitimation, "Immanuel Wallerstein wrote in 1994.* In periods of turbulence and confusion, it is advisable to...
News - Solidarity Economy
As late as the mid-1930s, nine out of 10 rural homes were without electric service. The farmer milked his cows by hand in the dim light of a kerosene lantern. His wife was a slave to the wood range and washboard.
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May 5, 2014
Benefits and Impacts of Cooperatives
- Cooperative enterprises address market failure: provide rural electricity or other utilities in sparsely populated areas; affordable healthy and...
September 29, 2010
The 29,284 cooperative firms operating in the US generate over 2 million jobs and create more than $74 billion in wages annually according to a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, with...
October 4, 2018
Under the motto 'connecting solidarity', it allows people to search for co-op providers of goods and services.
Co-ops in Argentina can now connect with customers and other social and solidarity economy businesses...
January 13, 2020
I will make a guess that there will be two trends relevant to platform co-operativism that will shape how our economic system works.
Trend 1: Increasingly diverse models of ownership
Perhaps...
July 26, 2019
This remarkable Fair is devoted to recovering traditional community trading practices based on knowledge sharing, respect for nature, equity, promoting food sovereignty, responsible consumption and linkage with other...
July 23, 2019
“The land that my father has given me, I hope to be able to pass on to my children in good condition, so that they can pass it on to future generations and that for them it will be even better than when I received it,”...
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