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Owning the Cooperative Identity: USDA Celebrates National Cooperatives Month
Start Date:
30/10/2023
End Date:
30/10/2023
Description
In October, USDA celebrates National Cooperative Month, highlighting the cooperative model as a form of organization that promotes self-help, solidarity, and community development. It emphasizes how cooperatives benefit members, provide economic resilience, and foster unique democratic values. USDA also offers resources and support for communities, including youth and rural groups, to start, sustain, or convert businesses into cooperatives, thus strengthening local participation and capacities.
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Action scope
Sectors:
Thematic Areas:
Countries:
Instruments:
- International, public-private partnerships
- Technical assistance to producers
- Conditional support to producers
- Education and awareness building
- Fostering of associativity
- Influence on public policies
- Production infrastructure
- Policy Monitoring and Evaluation
- Linkages between producers and value chains and markets
Resultados:
- Policy Coherence and Alignment
- Productive diversification
- Sustainable Rural Development
- Public policy development and implementation
- Institutional capacity building
- Information generation
- Production inclusion
- Social inclusion
- Improved productivity
- Improvement in technical assistance and rural extension services
- Improved living conditions
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