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A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperatives, which provide various services to their individually-farming members, and agricultural production cooperatives in which production resources (land, machinery) are pooled and members farm jointly. [1]
ZEN-NOH consists of 1,173 agricultural cooperatives and federations that in 2004 had a combined revenue of $53.8 billion (USD). ZEN-NOH is involved in the marketing, tracking, and quality assurance of the products of its cooperatives.
National Cooperative Bank (NCB) National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) (formerly the Cooperative League of America) National Co+op Grocers (NCG) National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC) Northern States Co-operative League (NSCL, established 1921)
Riceland Foods, Inc. is the largest farmer-owned rice and soybean marketing cooperative in the world with headquarters in Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States.The cooperative was founded in 1921 and has become a major rice and grain miller and a global marketer of the same.
Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives; Collective farming; Collectivization in the Polish People's Republic; Collectivization in the Soviet Union; Collectivization in Yugoslavia; Community-supported agriculture; Confédération Nationale de la Mutualité, de la Coopération et du Crédit Agricoles; Countrywide Farmers; CPA (agriculture)
Logo. COPA-COGECA (Comité des organisations professionnelles agricoles-Comité général de la coopération agricole de l'Union européenne / Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations-General Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives), is the union of the two big agricultural umbrella organisations COPA and COGECA and the strongest interest group for European farmers.
The members of the ICA are international and national cooperative organisations from all sectors of the economy, including agriculture, banking, consumer, fisheries, health, housing, insurance, industry and services. The ICA has members from more than 100 countries, and it is estimated to represent one billion individuals worldwide.
2012 was designated as the International Year of Cooperatives by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 2009. [ 1 ] The designation has honored the use of cooperative organizations to contribute to socio-economic development across the world. [ 2 ]