An association that represents cooperatives also has received questions from people who want to open new cooperatives.
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From housing cooperatives that provide affordable housing in California, or food cooperatives that provide family farmers a marketplace for their produce in Wisconsin, cooperatives by nature enable people to work together to achieve economic sustainability.
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Cooperatives are allowed to invest in shares and bonds of infrastructure and real estate companies after board approval, if they are in the interest of the cooperatives, according to the law under which these cooperatives operate.
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Part of residential earthquake risks will be borne by cooperatives such as Zenkyoren (National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives).
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But for consumer cooperatives, producer cooperatives, employee-owned enterprises and employee stock option plans, employee wealth sharing is the defining attribute of the organization.
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Community cooperatives have been recycling waste for the last decade, he explained, with some – such as the Gisozi cooperatives on Kigali's outskirts – even evolving into big companies.
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There are also tools like marketing cooperatives; farmers can build their own cooperatives to handle marketing on their own terms instead of letting brokers do it all for them.
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Increase support for employee-owned cooperatives Cooperatives, or employee-owned companies, grow local economies and stabilize communities by reinvesting capital in the local economy and creating new, good-paying jobs.
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The following are details of cooperatives in the U.S.: - Agricultural cooperatives provide grain handling, seed purchasing and other farm services to its members, who are also the owners of the business.
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Andreas Wieg, the head of the German association of cooperatives, noted that the number of cooperatives founded in recent years to save cultural institutions had increased, though his organization does not keep statistics.
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Housing cooperatives dot the hillsides of Solberg, Northside, and Bordeaux.
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As a result, some cooperatives' capital positions are likely weak.
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He likened it to worker cooperatives and community land trusts.
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The new rules also put limits on cooperatives' potential growth.
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And cooperatives are almost encouraging production by paying volume premiums.
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Electric cooperatives will continue empowering the American communities we serve.
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Cooperatives have long been an American solution to market failures.
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Juliana: Zapatista coffee grown by farmer cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico.
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The dispute stems from the government's attempts to enforce the country's mining laws, which require the cooperatives to allow workers to form unions and put restrictions on cooperatives' ability to work with foreign companies.
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The farming cooperatives association DRB, a separate organization, had on Aug.
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ALGERIA InVivo is a grouping of some 200 farmer-owned cooperatives.
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The law on cooperatives allows for an unlimited number of members.
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The huge cooperatives were broken up and handed to dedicated winemakers.
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Paris assisted in forming the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in 1967.
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Credit unions are nonprofit cooperatives that exist to serve their members.
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Production was dominated by cooperatives, who largely made cheap, indifferent wine.
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The remainder is owned by private family farmers and their cooperatives.
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"The existing solutions work well for large estates and it can also be effective for farmers organized into cooperatives, but many of the world's coffee farmers are smallholder farmers and not organized into cooperatives," Browning explains.
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North Carolina's Electric Cooperatives said upward of 51,900 customers were without power.
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Glencore, for example, supports cooperatives working in farming, welding, sewing and carpentry.
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That includes rural Americans and independent operators that compete against farm cooperatives.
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But the work of the agricultural cooperatives also keeps their prices high.
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I don't understand why our brothers at the cooperatives could do this.
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These cooperatives help shape and set the agenda of NRECA's advocacy efforts.
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The cooperatives also don't have the billions in venture capital backing them.
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The reason we started this was that we feel strongly about cooperatives.
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Sources: National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, CHS, University of California Cooperative Extension.
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The error gave cooperatives — including farming giants like Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc.
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"Women-run cooperatives put fonio back on the map," Thiam told me.
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The private sector includes 429 cooperatives, many of them former state establishments.
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InVivo, a grouping of some 200 agricultural cooperatives, is presenting the project to other cooperatives in northern Europe and Switzerland and hopes to reach a deal with at least one of them within a few months, Blandinieres said.
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I do believe that platform cooperatives offer an alternative to these platform monopolies.
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A number of health insurance cooperatives created under the law have shut down.
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The electric and broadband cooperatives share customer service staff, repairmen and billing systems.
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In fact, verification is often accessible only to large coffee estates or cooperatives.
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The news report said wholesale outlets will be gradually established for the cooperatives.
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The federation now represents about 75 cooperatives, made up of some 22012,233 families.
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Often, these wines were made by the large cooperatives that dominated the region.
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The contracts were finalised after CME overcame certain legal issues facing French cooperatives.
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And America's electric cooperatives value their strong relationship with the federal hydropower program.
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UFG is a union of agricultural cooperatives gathering 21326 members at end-January 244.
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Sugar companies and coffee cooperatives sent agronomists to the fields for a better evaluation.
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Throughout the 19th century, worker-owned cooperatives were an important pillar of the economy.
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Most of the country's miners, including those involved in the protests, work in cooperatives.
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The cooperatives are the groups that do the work of trying to place them.
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To that end, the project will work with four coffee-growing cooperatives, he said.
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The seeds boosted beet cooperatives' profit margins as they reduced labor and pesticide expenses.
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Agrium's farm retail rivals, which include small cooperatives and independent dealers, are also wary.
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McMahon should also ease lending requirements for cooperatives and offer more 8(a) contracts.
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Health insurance companies act like buyer cooperatives that negotiate prices on behalf of policyholders.
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Shaktikanta Das, economic affairs secretary, said the loan would be disbursed through farm cooperatives.
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"Housing cooperatives are only as strong as their financially weakest shareholder," Mr. Jorges said.
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Cooperatives in Brazil set prices in local currency for producers, making their lives easier.
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His government seized private factories, mines and fields, and founded state companies and cooperatives.
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But a wary Cuban government froze the creation of new cooperatives two years ago.
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Kentucky's Touchstone Energy Cooperatives have adopted sophisticated digital online tools to showcase available properties.
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Miranda is less sure this would happen in cooperatives where residents share building ownership.
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These include a conglomerate known as Setad; the foundations (or bonyads) like the Mostazafan, Astan-e Qods, and Shahid foundations; the IRGC Cooperatives; major business empires like the Khatam Construction Co. and Ghadir Investments; as well as "cooperatives" controlled by the security forces.
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Grain cooperatives, equipment makers, seed sellers and other entities also extended easy credit, he said.
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Tax advantages available to employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) should be made available to cooperatives.
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That law allowed farmer cooperatives, among other businesses, to make deductions for specific production activities.
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Cohousing communities are typically structured and incorporated as homeowner associations, condo associations or housing cooperatives.
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There is room for cooperatives to flourish alongside big competitors, some in the industry say.
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He said the cooperatives would result in better working conditions, equipment and access to capital.
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Last week, the City Council voted to remove four cooperatives from the pending foreclosure list.
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But residents in about 60 cooperatives remain in danger of losing their status as owners.
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And new fishing cooperatives are giving Rwandan women a chance to earn their own income.
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The new regulations aim to tackle "irregularities" detected in the cooperatives, state-run media reported.
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In agriculture, Mr. Abe has moved to curb the power of Japan's monopolistic farm cooperatives.
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It also contemplates creation of cooperatives that would grow marijuana plus a new regulatory agency.
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The companies and their allies crushed the cooperatives, through intimidation, litigation, and even outright sabotage.
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A senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture's credit cooperatives division, which regulates the cooperative societies that operate across state lines, said Sahara could be "misusing provisions of the law" that govern credit cooperatives by investing some of the cooperative funds into Aamby Valley.
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This allows farmers to deeply reduce their tax bills, but it has caused an uproar among independent agriculture businesses that say they can no longer compete with cooperatives, since farmers would choose to sell to cooperatives to take advantage of the more generous tax break.
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The state had owned 79 percent of arable land, and most was run in state cooperatives.
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The rating actions are part of a periodic review of Spanish credit cooperatives rated by Fitch.
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Euronext hopes its contract will attract farm cooperatives, fertiliser dealers, manufacturers as well as end users.
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The cooperatives forecast Germany's 2.63 winter rapeseed crop would fall 3.3 percent to 4.12 million tonnes.
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Stocksy's success may be a model for other digital cooperatives taking on behemoths in other industries.
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Some brands, like Fair Indigo and Raven + Lily, might choose to collaborate with worker-owned cooperatives.
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They then haul those fish home to their small villages, or sell the fish to cooperatives.
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Cooperatives of 101 members or more may not grow by more than 10 percent, for example.
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Marijuana producers would have incentives to start cooperatives or non-profits instead of for-profit corporations.
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They are cooperatives which make it easier to register and manage the matatus and their routes.
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Sunkara, for example, has called for converting shareholder firms into worker-owned cooperatives (something Sanders supports).
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More often, nonprofits move into food deserts with their own stores or residents establish food cooperatives.
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Electric cooperatives were developed across the US in the 1930s as part of FDR's New Deal.
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UFG's sole purpose is to fund part of the cooperatives' cereal inventories by the issuance of CPs.
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Electricity and telephone cooperatives, non-profit organizations, tribes and local governments would be eligible for the program.
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So he hired Czeizel, and four other pensioners, finding them through cooperatives that help retirees get jobs.
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That price is what processors and bottlers pay cooperatives, which then distribute the money to their members.
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Most of the island's grocery stores are multi-stakeholder cooperatives that have strong relationships with local farmers.
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Some states have applied the mandates only to investor-owned utilities, others include municipalities and electric cooperatives.
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For credit unions—not-for-profit, member-owned financial cooperatives—the costs of overregulation have been dramatic.
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Under the current law, farmers who sell crops to cooperatives can deduct 20 percent of total sales.
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These new projects, sometimes called "platform cooperatives," are tech enterprises owned and democratically controlled by their workers.
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Cooperatives don't just happen one business at a time; they require an infrastructure to thrive, an ecosystem.
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Muyej said giving cooperatives measuring instruments would help level the playing field between miners and foreign buyers.
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The failure of the low-income cooperatives serves as a reminder that good intentions can go awry.
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Some villages have experimented with rural cooperatives, allowing families to raise production by pooling labor and resources.
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Power plants have been stockpiling beds, blankets, and food, according to industry trade groups and electric cooperatives.
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But smaller cooperatives like Osage say they know their communities far better than Verizon and AT&T.
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Cooperatives are businesses owned by farmers that perform functions such as buying and marketing their members' commodities.
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The state owns 80 percent of the land and leases most of that to farmers and cooperatives.
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Mohammad Shariatmadari, the outgoing industries minister, was approved to head the Labour, Cooperatives and Social Affairs Ministry.
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However, some cooperatives do not want farmers to lose the tax benefit for making deliveries to their facilities.
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Seventy-year-old George Tibamwenda, a retired priest, chairs one of the cooperatives involved in nearby Rugyeyo village.
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Mohammad Shariatmadari, the outgoing industries minister, has been nominated to head the Labour, Cooperatives and Social Affairs Ministry.
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"Our next move is to work with the cooperatives and youth to turn waste into biogas", said Bruno.
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Rural Clima, a weather services company serving farmers and cooperatives, said there were frost reports in several states.
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In Germany, the farm cooperatives association forecasts the grain maize area will increase 9 percent to 448,000 hectares.
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Worker cooperatives are typically businesses that are owned and self-managed by workers, instead of bosses and CEOs.
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Cooperatives take time, and this new economy is coming along too slowly for those who need it most.
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Dignan: Cooperatives support farmers because ultimately farmers are able to capture a lot more value for their crops.
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Outside sleepy towns, the giant silver tanks of the cooperatives loom, the destiny for most of the grapes.
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Sole proprietors, ESOPs, cooperatives, businesses with no more than 500 employees and tribal small business concerns can apply.
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So the doctors proposed a new model: What if they formed cooperatives so they could share the load?
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Better yet, each is woven by artisanal cooperatives in Rwanda and then hand finished in New York City.
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As local businesses built by the consumers we serve, electric cooperatives have meaningful ties to America's rural communities.
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Thompson and Whitfield ran the Fund for Democratic Communities, a small foundation focused on economic democracy and cooperatives.
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The Virgin Islands Fund receives money from all of the cooperatives on St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John.
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The lawsuit, which was settled in August in California, alleged that Cooperatives Working Together, Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.
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COM LIMITED ENTERS INTO STRATEGIC COOPERATION FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT WITH HUBEI RURAL CREDIT COOPERATIVES TO ESTABLISH A FINANCING PLATFORM * SSLJ.
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Axereal, based in central France, is one of the country's largest cooperatives and a member of the InVivo network.
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Blandinieres had said in January that France's grain cooperatives should collaborate more in exports, including by merging trading desks.
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Italian government faces criticism over plans to reform non-profit banking cooperatives (BCCs), several newspapers reported at the weekend.
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And the so-called "grain glitch" could allow anyone who sells grain to cooperatives to completely avoid paying tax.
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In the 1970s, "Buffalo became a hotbed of people who understood and believed in worker cooperatives," Ms. Stewart said.
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Some approaches such as Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOPs) and cooperatives are already widely used either here or abroad.
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In the 213th century much of the crop was sold to cooperatives or to big companies making cheap wines.
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They bring these goods by animal or bicycle to cooperatives where they are processed and marketed, often for export.
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" Telecom cooperatives in particular, which are owned by the communities they operate in, "are not there to make money.
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Direct trade refers to beans that are bought outside this system, most often directly from farmers or farmers' cooperatives.
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Rural families became shareholders in the cooperatives, paying in by handing over some or all of their leased land.
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In 1895, the International Co-operative Alliance formed to serve as a way to unite cooperatives across the world.
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But they've also attempted to regularize the trade via cooperatives of illicit traders, intending to mainstream them into the official oil industry—a move that's been met with heavy resistance from unofficial illicit gas trade groups, that are organizing for the defense of their members against new laws and agitating against cooperatives.
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Some farmers and grain companies believe lawmakers will craft legislation to fix what they call the unfair advantage for cooperatives.
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Notably, the law also made it easier for communities to form local cooperatives that can build and manage broadband networks.
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Private businesses and non-farm cooperatives are included for the first time in the new version as legitimate economic actors.
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In second largest producer Germany, the crop will increase 353% on the year to 23.85 million tonnes, farm cooperatives forecast.
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The overall wheat supplies on global markets are good and no shortages are expected in Germany, the cooperatives association said.
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Yet for women such as Owok and Dubria and their coffee cooperatives, the ambitions are much bigger than making money.
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Florida Electric Cooperatives Association, which serves the majority of the Keys, said 30% of their customers had their electricity restored.
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The key is that these technologies are decentralized—they can easily be owned by consumers and cooperatives in local systems.
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If adequately capitalized and focused, these CDFIs are a resource for facilitating and financing business conversions to ESOPs or cooperatives.
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On the flip side, it expects to earn less from its cooperatives, real estate rental income and sales of properties.
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The miners' cooperatives played a central role when they joined protests over Bolivia's natural gas supply, which left dozens dead.
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As Ceclia Kang writes, about 40 electrical cooperatives offer or are in the process of building networks for internet networks.
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In the last decades, many cooperatives have been created to help local women benefit from the production of the oil.
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Non-governmental organisations, for example, built fishing cooperatives and donated facilities, such as warehouses to process and store dried fish.
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Credit unions are nonprofit, democratically-operated financial cooperatives that are owned by their members, and a competitor to traditional banks.
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The loosely regulated system of medical cannabis cooperatives that has existed for two decades will be illegal after Jan. 9.
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In addition, the Committee would also monitor (1) debt accumulation and debt servicing capability of households and SMEs, (2) search-for-yield behavior in the prolonged low interest rate environment, (3) growth in assets held by saving cooperatives and the interconnectedness among saving cooperatives, and (4) leverage by large corporates that might underprice risks.
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Scenius President Dueñas said it would appeal the finance ministry's decision for the sake of the cooperatives' associates and their families.
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The German cooperatives also forecast Germany's 2018 winter rapeseed crop will fall 18.6 percent on the year to 3.47 million tonnes.
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Take Kerala, where credit cooperatives that farmers and retired government workers rely on cannot swap old bills or issue fresh notes.
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Gwynne said the public sector had run railways well before and that cooperatives could run new regional state-owned energy companies.
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Grey Goose also uses wheat of the highest certification sourced from three farming cooperatives, and it's milled using a proprietary method.
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In total, it works with over 200 growers nationwide and sources most of its produce (78%) from family farms or cooperatives.
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NRECA is a trade association that advocates for the shared interests of their voting members cooperatives, one of which is AECI.
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Mississippi law doesn't even have a provision for worker or consumer cooperatives; those that do exist must incorporate out of state.
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Akuno enumerated a four-part agenda: a co-op incubator, an education center, a financial institution, and an association of cooperatives.
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There are currently several dozen such cooperatives facing foreclosure by the city, with some tenant-owners actively fighting to keep ownership.
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One of those methods is to encourage and support the formation of cooperatives to challenge traditional top-down game studio models.
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It's no wonder that existing cooperatives — firms owned by the people who work there — today are more productive than traditional workplaces.
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They take time to visit farms, schools, and weaving cooperatives, and encourage trekkers to bring small gifts for the village children.
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Industry trade groups and electric cooperatives told the wire service that companies are stockpiling beds, blankets and food for those employees.
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The provision in question allows farmers to deduct up to 20 percent of sales to cooperatives but not to other companies.
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Blandinieres said in January that he wanted grain cooperatives to work more closely together in exports, including by potentially merging trading desks.
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The company is also behind Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives, which teaches players how to build a democratic business or organization.
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He added that stagnating rents would result in the cooperatives slashing maintenance costs, resulting in a decline in the quality of living.
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Germany's marketable grain maize crop is set to slump by almost 50 percent to 2.3 million tonnes, the farm cooperatives association estimated.
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Housing cooperatives and city gardens have also been recognized as part of the cultural heritage of the canton of Zurich in particular.
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Shaktikanta Das, economic affairs secretary, said the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) will disburse the money through farm cooperatives.
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The new tax law allows farmers and ranchers to claim a 20 percent deduction on all payments received on sales to cooperatives.
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He drew up plans for a $22003 million development fund for cooperatives, using money from the city, credit unions, and outside donors.
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The story of black cooperatives, as much as it is one of "collective courage," in Nembhard's words, is a story of loss.
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At the Tilwizembe mine where Stany works, despite its cooperatives, research by Amnesty in 2013 documented deadly accidents and abuse of workers.
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The cooperatives club together to share the cost of large-scale packages of seeds, cutting the individual cost substantially, SOWEDA officials said.
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Specifically, "legislation affecting section 199A of the Internal Revenue Code," specifically referring to one part of the tax code that covers cooperatives.
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Others suggested that local fishing cooperatives themselves should be given a greater role in policies aimed at improving governance of the resource.
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"It will wreak economic damage not just on Cuba's state companies but also on the cooperatives and private sector workers," he said.
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According to NTCA, telecom cooperatives serve less than 5 percent of the country's subscribers, but cover 40 percent of the nation's landmass.
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Out of the fiscal crisis in the 1970s we got an expansive network of limited equity cooperatives and not-for-profit housing.
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Unions, businesses, consumer cooperatives and ethnic and African-American mutual aid societies had diverse ways of organizing and paying for medical care.
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Finally, cities, towns, and cooperatives are learning that these networks aren't as much of a financial risk as they once were considered.
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By forming cooperatives together for purchasing and services, these businesses have started to gain economies of scale that enable them to compete globally.
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FHB's biggest shareholders are Takarekbank with a 24.2 percent stake, while two savings and loans cooperatives hold stakes of over 10 percent each.
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Earlier this month Moody's upgraded FHB's deposit ratings to B2 from B3, citing closer integration of the bank with Hungary's savings cooperatives sector.
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Parliament could consider a bill in July that would replace weak rules that now govern credit cooperatives operating in more than one state.
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Dombret said that a 'one-size-fits-all' approach in regulating banks from large international investment giants to small savings cooperatives is inappropriate.
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Insurance agents also are focusing more on selling policies to credit unions or other cooperatives, to try to reach more people more quickly.
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Until the provision is changed, the current law will allow some farmers to avoid paying taxes entirely if they sell exclusively to cooperatives.
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He hoped that the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 would lead to the emergence of a network of self-organizing peasant cooperatives.
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Germany's 2018 grain harvest will be the lowest in 24 years after a drought and heatwave heavily damaged crops, farm cooperatives have estimated.
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Conner is president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC) and former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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DSA stands steadfastly for "social ownership" of capital—a plan that appears to mix some state ownership with the institution of workers' cooperatives.
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" They will have an economic impact not only in the state-owned companies, but also the cooperatives and private business owners," he added.
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Dialogue was necessary, it added, citing possible measures to compensate for higher fuel prices, such as credit lines for farmers and transport cooperatives.
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Our No. 2 bottle came from Produttori del Barbaresco, one of the great wine cooperatives of the world and always a reliable producer.
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The grants would be awarded to electricity and telephone cooperatives, nonprofits, tribes and municipalities that pledge to bring high-speed internet to underserved areas.
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The vast majority of miners in Bolivia, one of South America's poorest countries, work in cooperatives, scraping a living producing silver, tin and zinc.
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The basic idea here isn't so far removed from the cooperatives that electrified rural America as part of the New Deal's public investment schemes.
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On Thursday, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, introduced a bill that would let rare earths producers form cooperatives, avoiding U.S. antitrust statutes.
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Late last year, it launched a campaign to raise awareness of the insurance policy among small-scale farmers, working with cooperatives and farmers' associations.
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Increasingly, fruits and vegetables can be found at cooperatives or from a vendor who may show up in the neighborhood with a small cart.
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Georgia's electric membership cooperatives reported Friday night that about 52,000 customers were without power, mainly in the north and western parts of the state.
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Instead, it ejected failing members, and commercial banks were forced to compensate clients of cooperatives that failed, to the tune of 100 billion forints.
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A 10 billion baht ($285.4 million) loan will be offered by the state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) for emergency spending.
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A fierce grass-roots opposition led by local activist groups like Community in Unity and Green Workers Cooperatives came together to quash the proposal.
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They learned the history of black-led cooperatives from Nembhard and took stock of what might have been in Jackson—and what might be.
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The statement accused Mengyi and his associates of devising a scheme in early 2015 to unlawfully obtain European Union funds intended for social cooperatives.
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The Democratic Socialists of America, of which Ocasio-Cortez is a member, believe in economies defined by state-owned enterprises and worker-owned cooperatives.
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At the cooperatives, other women manage drying stations, where the fish are turned into a more compact, shriveled-up product that's easier to transport.
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Others were hiring too many contractors, or paying their directors disproportionately high wages, as if they were private companies and not cooperatives, they said.
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They also row back slightly on a previous decision to forbid cooperatives from operating nationwide, limiting them to the province where they are headquartered.
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Ms. Ratcliff organized nearly 19913 other farmers into cooperatives to join her in selling and delivering meats and cheeses to New York and Boston.
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Below is the list of exporters and cooperatives authorised by the CCC to purchase and export cocoa beans and products for the coming season.
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But the provision had the unintended consequence of creating an incentive for farmers to sell their commodities to cooperatives rather than to private companies.
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For many Cubans, self-employment or work at cooperatives offers an opportunity to earn more than the average state wage of $30 per month.
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Britain's Big Squeeze As local governments across Britain grapple with shrunken budgets, many are going into business, funding cooperatives and speculating in real estate.
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Raising questions over how we attain basic needs of food and water, "WetLand" feeds off the growing movements of urban farming and food cooperatives.
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They counted the number of housing units — including single-family homes, condos, duplexes, cooperatives, and townhouses — in the risk zones, and recorded their current value.
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"Before they couldn't send their children to school, and now all the ladies (who work for the cooperatives) have their children in education," Charrouf said.
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Growers seeking to take advantage of the tax provision have already been asking about transferring crops they have in storage at private elevators to cooperatives.
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The National Grain and Feed Association, a trade group that represents cooperatives and private grain companies, said it was disappointed there was no resolution yet.
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Unknown to the other bidders, it had quietly paid $1 million in legal bills for seven of the Cajun Electric-member cooperatives supporting its bid.
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But when the women get together, their conversations quickly turn to expanding, welcoming more people of every gender, and inspiring other cooperatives like their own.
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The 25-year contract offers feed in tariff rate at 5.66 baht per unit, while companies will share revenue with the cooperatives, the regulator said.
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Most of the cooperatives he has helped create were "developed in crisis" to stop residents being driven away from the area by gentrification or eviction.
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JS: Your first exhibitions were held at some of the influential artist cooperatives of the 1950s, like Roko Gallery, the Sun Gallery, and Tanager Gallery.
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Since at least 2011 the number of credit unions, non-profit financial cooperatives that are owned and controlled by members, has consistently shrunk each year.
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As housing prices climb in Queens for rentals, cooperatives and condominiums, the neighborhood's existing residents will likely be unable to afford the higher property prices.
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The Value Added Producer Grant Program can assist in building this infrastructure, and keep assets and equity in the hands of farmers and farm cooperatives.
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Mostly in rural areas, they're often built atop old telephone cooperatives that, in the past, filled the gaps left by hegemonic utilities with democratic enterprise.
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He doesn't believe it's a good idea for individuals to negotiate their own terms, and that we should let these market cooperatives determine the value.
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Her father, Silas Cayetano, also began his career as a teacher, then became an official in Belize's fishing and agricultural cooperatives, and, later, a senator.
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Farmers were suddenly under rigid control, shackled by contracts that allowed them to sell only to government cooperatives directing all the marketing for Tanzanian crops.
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It gives farmers such a big tax deduction for selling their produce to agricultural cooperatives that private firms fear their grains supply will dry up.
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Garrett couldn't wrap his head around how cooperatives were going to take on big city contracts, with all the bonding and hardware such work requires.
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Halk also benefits from its policy role as the sole provider of subsidised loans to small businesses through cooperatives (end-1H13: 14% of gross loans).
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Worker cooperatives, or companies and organizations that are owned by the very same people they employ, are an emerging trend helping municipalities spur job growth.
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"You can't throw too much of a worse scenario at producers than what they currently have," said Conner of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.
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Credit unions, established as nonprofit cooperatives meant to provide credit and basic financial services to a tight-knit community, are exempt from corporate income tax.
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As an example, he said the state had authorized small construction cooperatives, but suddenly these had proliferated in response to the residential real estate boom.
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Similarly, the Interior Department has withdrawn funding for its Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, 22017 regional research centers that tackled issues like habitat loss and wildfire management.
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The trade sources said the Chicago-based CME has almost finalised contracts with enough French cooperatives to act as regional delivery silos following protracted talks.
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Drawing on the legacy of populist forbearers, the farmers tried to organize cooperatives so that they could dictate the price of tobacco to the companies.
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"We will strengthen policy support and increase subsidies to support farmers to use organic fertilizer ... especially large-scale farmers, family farms and cooperatives," Zhong said.
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"Though the aim of that provision, in part, was to preserve benefits previously available to agricultural cooperatives and their patrons for income attributable to domestic production activities, the current statutory language does not maintain the previous competitive balance between cooperatives, other agricultural businesses, and the farmers who sell their crops to them, which existed prior to enactment of the tax reform bill," Hatch said.
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Pele, who sells through Cristal Union, one of France's main sugar beet buying cooperatives, plans to increase his planting area by around 22005 percent this year.
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The start-up recently teamed up with Whole Foods and the Clinton Foundation, a partnership designed to re-forest Haiti and support women-led farming cooperatives.
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The government-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives will approve loans of up to 300,000 baht ($0003,415) to farmers who store rice to curb supply.
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Government agencies are working to bring informal recycling workers into cooperatives that provide uniforms and safety equipment, she said, but this is not an easy process.
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In June, the city created a $2 million fund in part to help potential cooperatives get off the ground by covering some pre-development planning costs.
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Municipal power boards reflect their communities, so while liberal towns might demand greater levels of renewable energy, rural cooperatives in conservative states quite likely would not.
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The initiative also hooks farmer cooperatives up with commercial credit providers, and helps those wanting to start small businesses selling equipment for the new farming system.
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Already working towards this shift in broad-based ownership are cities like New York, which has allocated $3.3 million over two years to develop worker cooperatives.
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One is the so-called Securities Information Processors (SIPs), which are SEC-mandated cooperatives of trading platforms that produce a consolidated feed of all market activity.
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But the current president, Evo Morales, has long enjoyed the support of the miners' cooperatives, which was why the developments this week were surprising to many.
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"The export chances for German wheat to Saudi Arabia could fall in future," the association of German farm cooperatives, DRV, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Brazilian producers and cooperatives say that damage to next year's crop is very likely, although they were still assessing how intense and extensive the frosts were.
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In New York, the city government is investing $563 million in creating new worker cooperatives alongside the existing ones in industries like home care and catering.
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But what began as a way to help renters own their homes became a challenge as many cooperatives struggled to keep up with taxes and utilities.
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Since 1997, the city has foreclosed on 74 cooperatives that fell behind in bills, according to data provided by the city's Housing Preservation and Development agency.
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Seara manages farms, provides rail and road transportation for grains and trades soybeans and corn produced by farmers or delivered by cooperatives in four Brazilian states.
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More than 750 communities around the country have now either built their own broadband networks or built local cooperatives in a quest for better, cheaper service.
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In early February, Spain's minister of agriculture, fisheries, and food pledged to address those demands — which could include increasing the bargaining power of cooperatives like Dcoop.
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These local companies and cooperatives are more interested in serving their members and communities with a public service than in a short-term return on investment.
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Elections are really the only way to change a board, said Mary Ann Rothman, the executive director of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums.
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It was Charrouf who helped establish a movement of women cooperatives, which she says plays a crucial role in progressing the lives of women in the region.
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But some experts say if Sahara is using deposits from the cooperative societies to finance Aamby Valley, members of the cooperatives might face difficulty recouping their money.
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Some work for the prison, tending to and maintaining its facilities, but others work for cooperatives and businesses that began employing them after they began their sentences.
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Mr. Brancati said that nearly half the 4,094 residential units are apartments: condominiums, cooperatives and rentals, some designated as income-restricted, some for ages 55 and up.
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InVivo, a grouping of around 200 farming cooperatives, is one of the largest exporters of French grain and has activities ranging from food retail to wine distribution.
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This came a day after Germany's farm cooperatives association said the country's grain harvest will be the lowest in 24 years due to drought and hot weather.
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Renewables, with their lower cost of entry, are cropping up on rooftops and in cooperatives as cities and regions take their power generation into their own hands.
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Meru's farmers have grouped together to sell their growing milk production to cooperatives, and a larger grouping, the Meru Dairy Union, now processes and sells the milk.
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Frustrated by slow speeds, limited availability, high prices and terrible customer service, more than 750 communities across the country have built their own broadband ISPs or cooperatives.
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Vestia survived with help from several Dutch government and semi-governmental organisations, including the country's other housing cooperatives, which were forced to contribute to a recovery plan.
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Lukama's solution depends on establishing partnerships with cooperatives of about 100 diggers each who will work limited plots that can be monitored for evidence of armed influence.
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These immigrants brought egalitarian values, derivative of Lutheran Protestantism, that inspired them to organize agricultural cooperatives and to support, in disproportionate numbers, the nascent trade union movement.
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The decree also contains measures to pull together under a holding company the 371 credit cooperatives that are currently tiny fragments in an unwieldy and expensive system.
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The cooperatives, which operate as independent companies and employ about 120,000 miners, say the laws restrict their independence, and they have taken their case to the streets.
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Anyway, he says, maybe we can build a "parallel structure" of "nonprofit distribution cooperatives" that will once again allow creative artists to earn a decent living. Seriously.
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The bill would direct the Small Business Administration to strengthen its loan program and outreach efforts for companies with Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and worker cooperatives.
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Economy minister Marino Murillo made clear upon announcing plans to turn state-run businesses into cooperatives two years ago, that they would be favored over private businesses.
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Seizing the initiative, the national mines ministry has recognised dozens of cooperatives of workers to exploit 10 square kilometre plots of land owned by state miner Gecamines.
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Near the office, a row of sewing machines was installed to fill orders from Dutch clothing cooperatives and even fashion designers preparing collections for Paris fashion week.
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Despite the other benefits of the law, he said, he would rather be governed by the old tax code than face a competitive disadvantage to nearby cooperatives.
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The Obama administration's failure to pay the claims was cited as a reason for the collapse of many nonprofit insurance cooperatives created under the Affordable Care Act.
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The cooperatives then used the larger acreage to produce commercial crops like tea and walnuts, paying villagers a share of returns and sometimes wages for farm work.
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Prior to the constitutional changes approved by lawmakers last month, the state owned about 80 percent of Cuba's farmland, leasing most of it to farmers and cooperatives.
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For America's electric cooperatives, one of the most alarming proposals targets publicly owned transmission assets and their ability to provide renewable energy across more than 30 states.
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Ali Rabiei, minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare was quoted as saying by semi-official Tasnim news agency that 35 miners have died in the incident.
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As Shieber wrote: As housing prices climb in Queens for rentals, cooperatives and condominiums, the neighborhood's existing residents will likely be unable to afford the higher property prices.
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Instead, they complained, Sahara's agents and branch officials tried to persuade them to switch their matured savings deposits into new schemes offered through credit cooperatives run by Sahara.
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In the centre-western region of Daloa, which produces a quarter of Ivory Coast's output, farmers said cocoa cooperatives were preparing warehouses for the first batch of beans.
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The ratings helped fuel projections for plentiful global inventories, traders said, after Germany's association of farm cooperatives said the country's wheat harvest will jump 22 percent in 28.87.
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With Forsaken, several of those Milestones — ones that task you with completing simple, solo play-friendly things like PvP matches and cooperatives Strikes — now reset every four days.
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For instance, it could be a good way to subscribe to an insurance product, order seeds or contact companies and cooperatives and corporations willing to buy your output.
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Some 235.1600 farm cooperatives along with several listed companies won the right to sell a combined 281.32 megawatts (MW) of solar power to the national grid last week.
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The government expects to win opposition support for the reform, yet some politicians and a lobby group representing credit cooperatives oppose it saying it could cause job losses.
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InVivo cut jobs at its grain trading unit this year and also launched a digital export platform to make it more efficient in procuring grain from French cooperatives.
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Raul Castro has encouraged small businesses and cooperatives in retail services, farming, minor manufacturing and retail, and given more autonomy to state companies which still dominate the economy.
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Germany's saturated bank sector has hundreds too many lenders, primarily smaller savings banks and cooperatives, requiring a major wave of consolidation to restore profitability, banking supervisors have said.
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Many Peruvian growers already sell their cocoa at $3,200 per tonne, said Santiago Paz, president of Cooperatives without Borders, a Costa Rica-based association for organic cocoa producers.
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Some insurance firms have linked up with Saccos, Kenya's network of savings and loan cooperatives, which offer savers steady returns and allow members to borrow in hard times.
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The new rules mean some former state-run companies turned into cooperatives on the Communist-led island will no longer have to buy from more expensive retail outlets.
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The government has also ordered some 500 larger state-run establishments, from beauty salons to restaurants, to become cooperatives as a pilot project before thousands more follow suit.
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Local governments have figured out that if they help develop worker cooperatives, jobs created in their community stay in their community and the profits can be reinvested locally.
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During Mr. Paige's 33 years with the federation — he joined it in 1969 — he helped organize dozens of cooperatives and 18 community development credit unions across the Southeast.
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In 1985, the federation merged with the Emergency Land Fund, an organization dedicated to protecting black-owned land, to become the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund.
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The technique, initially introduced by the Spanish, was kept alive after the Mexican War of Independence by a handful of cooperatives like Uriarte Talavera, which opened in 1824.
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In a letter sent to the White House last month, 65 dairy producers, processors and cooperatives from around the country urged Trump to reach an accommodation with Mexico.
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The partnership will initially explore putting cyber-insurance and political risk activities on a blockchain-based system, Risk Cooperatives founder and CEO Dante Disparte said in an email.
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ABIDJAN, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast granted cocoa export licences to 72 companies and cooperatives for the 2019/20 season, a document seen by Reuters showed on Monday.
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The plans would also send their money ($85 billion and $150 billion respectively) directly to electricity and telephone cooperatives, nonprofits, tribes, local governments, and municipal networks like Osage.
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In Guizhou, Mr. Chen instead promoted a solution that has gained favor under Mr. Xi: merging small family fields into cooperatives that pool villagers' land, money and labor.
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"The current level of the policy rate is likely to remain appropriate over the near term," Bullard told the America's Cotton Marketing Cooperatives 2017 Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
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After resulting worker-managed cooperatives began to falter, and the country returned to civilian rule in the 1980s, members of the leftist elite distributed the land among themselves.
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READ: China's 'tomato and eggs' Olympic uniform Executives dismissed Shanxi Provincial Rural Credit Cooperatives Union, the bank's supervisory body, has removed two executives from their posts, the statement said.
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The budget also calls for amendments to cooperatives and savings societies, while new regulations will help setup an Islamic pension scheme based on the risk-sharing concept of takaful.
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Jim Matheson is CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the national service organization that represents the nation's more than 900 not-for-profit, consumer-owned electric cooperatives.
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At the moment, I use a supplier who has direct links with a lot of farmers and cooperatives in Ecuador and the Dominican Republic [where Love Cocoa is sourced].
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The cooperatives emerged during the economic and social crisis of 2001, when thousands of people climbed the mountain of garbage in search of food and clothing just to survive.
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CRS has lent $1 million to banks in El Salvador that lend on to city authorities and cooperatives to spend improving and expanding their erratic, poorly maintained water services.
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The central bank also asked banks to ensure the district cooperative banks and regional rural banks, which provide loans to several farmers' cooperatives, get a sufficient amount of cash.
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DERIVATION SUMMARY Tewoo has higher gross revenue but a lower operating EBITDAR margin than Bunge Limited (BBB/Negative) and Tereos Union de Cooperatives Agricoles a Capital Variable (BB/Stable).
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As governor, Perdue had problems with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and cut funding they received from the state of Georgia that would have helped black and Latino farmers.
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Trump has also met with Elsa Murano, undersecretary of agriculture for food safety under President George W. Bush, and Chuck Conner, head of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.
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At the same time, advocates of property-owning democracy have said that their vision might readily enclose worker-owned and -managed cooperatives or require public ownership of financial capital.
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The site is nominally owned by Bolivia's state-run mining company Comibol, but miners don't draw pay from the state; they work essentially as freelancers in loose-knit cooperatives.
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Some farmers seeking to take advantage of the new deduction are already asking about transferring grain they have stored at private elevators and selling it to cooperatives, Bell said.
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The ministry will verify and assess collective assets in the countryside and form the farmers' cooperatives in 50 cities and some provinces, the journal quoted the ministry as saying.
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Today, cooperatives remain a powerful resource, but often don't have a seat at the table when lawmakers and the private sector talk about policies that will grow our economy.
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Dave Heineman, and Chuck Connor, the CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives who served as interim Agriculture Secretary briefly under President George W. Bush, as prospective nominees.
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He then grabs a handkerchief and proceeds to dab at his forehead as Ali Rabiei, the minister for cooperatives, labor, and social welfare, continues to talk next to him.
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This is sent to 2,485 distributors and 274 farm cooperatives, who with the help of government officials then decide how much is to be distributed to the 44,000 retailers.
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In second largest producer Germany, the 2019 wheat harvest will increase 19.8% on the year to 24.28 million tonnes after massive drought damage last year, German farm cooperatives estimate.
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U.S. manufacturers that require these "technology metals" also could set up rare earth cooperatives, similar to the co-ops currently used by the agriculture, ethanol, lumber and hardware industries.
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Another extremely common form of lending has been credit cooperatives, in which people — often living in the same region and/or affiliated through a particular trade — could obtain loans.
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As part of their efforts to expand farming, the government often rents parcels of land to farming cooperatives to exploit, and farmers get a cut of what they harvest.
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The technical error, dubbed the "grain glitch," essentially gave more lucrative tax deductions to farmers who sold agricultural products, like grains, to farm cooperatives instead of privately owned farms.
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Left out of the panel entirely were the major wins and expansion to art and cultural workers' rights made by unions, and worker cooperatives (MEANS TV, The Glory Society).
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"In our experience, electric cooperatives can build fiber networks in rural areas at population densities of greater than five homes per linear mile without needing any subsidies," Mitchell said.
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The central bank said it will cut the RRR for about 21,26.7908 rural commercial banks operating in counties to 8 percent, equal to the RRR for smaller rural credit cooperatives.
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Its 19 credit cooperatives and BCC are bound by a mutual support mechanism under which members mutualise 100% of profits and have a cross-support mechanism for capital and liquidity.
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The central bank said it will cut the RRR for about 1,000 rural commercial banks operating in counties to 8 percent, equal to the RRR for smaller rural credit cooperatives.
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The agency has founded cooperatives in Indonesia as well as Madagascar that provide training for growers - often women - on crop production and management, as well as aspects of financial literacy.
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The central bank said it will cut the RRR for about 21,22 rural commercial banks operating in counties to 173 percent, equal to the RRR for smaller rural credit cooperatives.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban farmers may now hire laborers directly rather than through cooperatives, the government said on Friday, marking a modest advance to loosen controls in its Soviet-style economy.
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Candidates include: locally-run clean energy projects, worker-owned cooperatives, many kinds of progressive businesses, and regenerative agriculture or rewilding practices that could grow exponentially in a favorable policy environment.
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Less than 10 percent of Kenya's housing credit is in the form of bank mortgages, with most people borrowing from savings and loan cooperatives, funded by members' deposits, it said.
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Agricultural cooperatives, equipment dealers and plants that process corn into ethanol have already been strained because farmers were unable to plant millions of acres this spring due to widespread flooding.
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The central bank said it will cut the RRR for about 23,22 rural commercial banks operating in counties to 21.3 percent, equal to the RRR for smaller rural credit cooperatives.
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The cooperatives might also get a boost from landmark new regulations known as "Duty to Serve", said Emily Thaden, national policy director at Grounded Solutions Network, a nonprofit housing group.
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OTP also complained about a 136 billion forint state capital injection in the Integration Association of Cooperative Lenders (SZHISZ), an umbrella group created in 2013 for savings cooperatives and Takarekbank.
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In a partial rollback, some of Havana's neighborhood markets have given up on cooperatives with which they had struck deals and reverted to a state-run model with fixed prices.
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Sometimes the local Catholic bishop wouldn't allow this trio and the many similar faith cooperatives that followed in their wake to perform, but otherwise, the groups were a tremendous success.
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So President Roosevelt established the Rural Electrification Administration in 1936, a centerpiece of the New Deal, which led to the creation of thousands of small electric cooperatives using federal funds.
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The deals include a memorandum of understanding to jointly explore for energy resources, alongside agreements on basic education, agricultural cooperatives and infrastructure projects, Philippines government spokesman JV Arcena told CNN.
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In Paraná state, losses are estimated at between 500,000 tonnes and 600,000 tonnes, roughly 3 percent of the state's production, according to estimates by Ocepar, an association of farm cooperatives.
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Most coffee farmers in Brazil are linked to cooperatives who provide them with daily snapshots of prices via messaging apps, allowing producers to quickly take advantage of spikes in prices.
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In that leadership role he helped organize black farmers and others in the Southeast into economic cooperatives, educated them on how best to retain their land and became their spokesman.
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In magazines and on websites, in reading groups and party chapters, socialists are debating the next steps: state ownership of certain industries, worker councils and economic cooperatives, sovereign wealth funds.
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Mr. Thiam has long been a champion of fonio — an ancient grain that looks almost like couscous — and he recently founded Yolele Foods, which imports it from West African cooperatives.
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For decades bobal served primarily as the raw material for bulk wines produced by cooperatives, either for local consumption or export, where it was used to beef up wan reds.
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They cap the amount cooperatives in some sectors can charge for their services by limiting their profits relative to expenses, and allow local authorities to implement price caps if necessary.
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To be sure, the new regulations do respond to some of the cooperatives' demands, such as granting them the right to appeal if authorities shut them down via the courts.
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Perhaps they were sold to cooperatives, where they were destined for anonymous blends, or maybe they were used for the owner's own wine, made for personal consumption or sold regionally.
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Perhaps they were sold to cooperatives, where they were destined for anonymous blends, or maybe they were used for the owner's own wine, made for personal consumption or sold regionally.
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"The buyers' and cooperatives' warehouses are full of cocoa, but we can't deliver to exporters in (the port of) San Pedro and the quality is beginning to deteriorate," Coulibaly said.
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For a start, the problem that cooperatives have in raising capital will require national or regional investment banks to provide funds, thus government would be picking winners and allocating resources.
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He recently founded Yolele Foods, which imports the grain, grown and processed by these cooperatives, to the United States, and he plans to open a large-scale mill in Dakar.
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Auramon Supthaweethum, the deputy head of Thailand's Department of Trade Negotiations, told Reuters that a discussion of the import ban was "still being coordinated" with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives.
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A lack of banking services in India - nearly two-fifths of its 1.27 billion people have no bank accounts - has helped shadow banks such as the credit cooperatives thrive for decades.
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Germany's 2019 wheat harvest will jump 20.6 percent on the year to 24.44 million tonnes with rising expectations of a recovery after the drought-reduced harvest last year, farm cooperatives forecast.
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At the start of the past century, electrification presented a similar problem, and FDR solved it by directing money toward local cooperatives willing to put in the effort required for expansion.
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The National Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Bolivia, once strong allies of leftist President Evo Morales, began what they said would be an indefinite protest after negotiations over mining legislation failed.
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There's no time to kick the can down the road because farmers, independent operators, and cooperatives all need to know the tax implications when they agree upon this year's grain contracts.
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Some 70 percent of the 1-million-strong agricultural workforce is private with many Cubans working on state farms that have converted into cooperatives and owning equal stakes in the business.
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EDT: The Hill's Peter Schroeder is hosting a policy discussion on real estate and the U.S. economy with Evergreen Cooperatives' Rosalyn "Roz" Ciulla and the American Enterprise Institute's Edward J. Pinto.
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The project will also enable smallholder farmer cooperatives to sell their grain collectively, and build strong links with grain traders, incentivizing them to grow a larger amount of better-quality crops.
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In March, lawmakers passed a compromise bill to fix the "grain glitch," which inadvertently gave farm cooperatives an unfair advantage over their corporate competitors because of another tax code drafting error.
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The number of U.S. farm cooperatives has been steadily shrinking in recent years, as they scramble to consolidate and stay competitive amid the merger frenzy of major seed and chemical companies.
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Glory Ann Hussey Kerstein, a key member and an organizer of an anti-foreclosure committee within the coalition, estimated that the group has helped 11 cooperatives avoid foreclosure since last year.
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Cooperatives were a hot topic this year at GDC, and the recent public accolades of Dead Cells and its creators, French game cooperative Motion Twin, thrust the idea into the spotlight.
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It's not clear if Congress can even agree to fix glaring problems in the new law, including a provision that unintentionally gave agricultural cooperatives a big advantage over their larger competitors.
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And in Denmark's case globalization seems to have been equalizing, both politically and economically: instead of fostering dominance by foreign corporations or domestic landowners, it led to dominance by rural cooperatives.
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They, along with others from their communities and cooperatives, have dyed and stitched and knitted and woven and embroidered and painted and hammered and thrown and hand printed everything on offer.
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Four U.S. farmers told Reuters that local farm cooperatives are warning farmer customers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin that supplies of herbicides and pesticides could be delayed in the short run.
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"Their first instinct, given his background, was to not like this guy," said Chuck Conner, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, who organized the industry coalition's letter.
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RDOF creates a pot of more than $20 billion for cooperatives, satellite operators, and other telecoms to compete for in order to support broadband projects in unserved areas across the country.
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The economic plans of the Democratic socialist include tax hikes on everyone making more than $29,000 a year and company owners compelled by the force of government to create worker cooperatives.
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The benefits of selling to cooperatives under the GOP tax law are so large that the Wall Street Journal reported it could let some farmers reduce their taxable income to zero.
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And the experts&apos investigation of more than 200 joint ventures and/or cooperatives turned up a number that violated U.N. sanctions resolutions by maintaining links with companies and entities under sanctions.
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More than 120 housing authorities, rural electricity cooperatives, power companies and civic organizations committed to invest a collective $287 million and install more than 280 megawatts in solar projects this week alone.
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Policy holders, most of whom had bought their plans through farming or beekeeping cooperatives, got payouts within a week, "and after that the take-up increased more than 100 percent", Francois remembers.
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In the meantime, state governments are moving forward with a range of policies to increase broadband access to unserved and underserved populations, including incentives to increase private sector expansion and rural cooperatives.
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IDFA's diverse membership ranges from multinational organizations to single-plant companies, from dairy companies and cooperatives to food retailers and suppliers, all on the cutting edge of innovation and sustainable business practices.
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According to the 1987 Philippine constitution, ownership and management of media "shall be limited to citizens of the Philippines, or to corporations, cooperatives or associations, wholly-owned and managed by such citizens".
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Until now, the cooperatives, private companies and publicly traded firms had a more even opportunity to handle the grain supply used in everything from loaves of bread in supermarkets to livestock feed.
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While most people recognize credit unions, rural electric providers, and large national consumer brands like Nationwide Insurance, Organic Valley, or REI, local cooperatives are also having a profound impact on their communities.
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Democratic socialism can be hard to define, but the DSA describes it as democratic control of the government and the economy, with decentralized "social ownership" of businesses, such as worker-owned cooperatives.
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Rather than create government-owned competitors to private utilities, the REA made loans available to rural residents who wanted to band together and create consumer-owned cooperatives to serve as local utilities.
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Among those is a capped licensing system that the report compares to one that exists in the craft beer industry; a ban on vertical integration of marijuana businesses; and encouragement for cooperatives.
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There are an estimated 18,000 Cubans - some 0.4 percent of the total workforce of 4.4 million - working for non-agricultural cooperatives, in sectors deemed "non-strategic" like construction, transport, gastronomy and accountancy.
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"I'm struck by the fact that the non-agricultural cooperatives are still seen as an experiment," said Pavel Vidal, a former Cuban central bank economist, who teaches at Colombia's Universidad Javeriana Cali.
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Pekka Pesonen, secretary-general of European farmers and agri-cooperatives group Copa Cogeca, expressed doubt such people would want or be able to replace hundreds of thousands of largely eastern European workers.
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Stakeholders and lawmakers identified the provision as an issue fairly quickly, and talks about a fix have been taking place among private companies, cooperatives and House and Senate tax writers since January.
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Mr. Weinstein, a founder and board member of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums, also recommended scrutinizing the proprietary lease and bylaws, the documents that govern the co-op's existence.
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Leaders and spokespersons from the National Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Bolivia, who had organized the week's protests, did not answer phone calls on Friday and did not comment in the media.
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Regarding the biogas sector, Holleaux said a government proposal to reduce growth targets and planned investment would throttle development and push out participants such as farm cooperatives without the means to compete.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Frosts were reported in several agricultural areas in Brazil over the weekend, including coffee and sugarcane production regions, and cooperatives and companies expected some impact as they assessed the situation.
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Added at the 11th hour to the Republican tax bill, the "grain glitch" gives lucrative tax breaks to grain producers selling to farming cooperatives, and a lesser break for selling to agriculture companies.
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InVivo, a grouping of 220 agricultural cooperatives and one of the largest exporters of French cereals, has focused on overseas growth under a reorganisation launched two years ago by Chief Executive Thierry Blandinieres.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. agricultural cooperatives are building new soybean crushing plants at the fastest rate in two decades as farmers in the world's top producer prepare to sow another record area with soy.
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Germany's 2018 wheat harvest will fall 1.1 percent on the year to 24.21 million tonnes, the country's association of farm cooperatives said on Thursday in its first forecast of the country's new crop.
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Germany's 2016 wheat crop will fall 2.9 percent on the year to 25.77 million tonnes, the country's association of farm cooperatives estimates, still above Germany's 2010-2015 average of around 25 million tonnes.
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"Jim will bring to the position a broad knowledge of the issues facing rural America and will be an inspirational leader for America's Electric Cooperatives," NRECA President Mel Coleman said in a statement.
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The generation of farmers that organized under the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in the 1960s and 70s is aging out of existence, and the new generation of black co-ops is still emerging.
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But rather than giving up, dealers are redefining what it means to be a gallerist — in some cases joining forces to create cooperatives and in others becoming virtual with just an online presence.
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It sounds fanciful, but it's not a year-zero leap into the unknown: It's taking what we know works (universal social services and worker-owned cooperatives) and building a social system around them.
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Electricity and telephone cooperatives, non-profits, tribes, cities, counties, and state subdivisions are the only groups that can apply for these funds, emphasizing the push to bring these systems into areas presently underserved.
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The National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC) and the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) issued a joint statement Tuesday afternoon announcing a proposal that they expect to be included in the omnibus.
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He said it would work with housing cooperatives, and had developed financing strategies with the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe and the Urban Development Corporation to provide low-cost serviced land for development.
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Still others are left-leaning idealists attracted by the Kurds' talk of creating a socialist democracy called Rojava, with workers' cooperatives and a constitution that recognizes environmental sustainability, religious freedom and gender equality.
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Frustrated by years of dysfunction, many towns and cities are either building their own broadband networks, developing local cooperatives, or striking partnerships with third party companies to build better networks than are currently available.
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While it is not the sole source of power in Colorado, whatever the behemoth does impacts the other investor-owned utility, Black Hills Energy, and often trickles down to our rural electric cooperatives too.
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AMSTERDAM, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Vestia, one of the largest Dutch housing cooperatives, said on Wednesday it had filed a large claim against Deutsche Bank, alleging the bank had improperly sold it interest rate derivatives.
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"Dairy farmers in the north depend to a substantial extent on processors and cooperatives in the south, to purchase their milk, because Northern Ireland doesn't have the capacity to process its milk," Flanagan explained.
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Cleber, an Alabama company, received a license in February from the Treasury Department — and has an agreement with the Cuban government — to assemble simple tractors in Cuba to sell to private farmers and cooperatives.
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Café Femenino, which was formed in 2004, not only pays a premium for beans from cooperatives that follow its strict guidelines to empower women but also pays its female members directly for their harvests.
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That same year she made what was to prove a pivotal trip to the Eastern Canadian Arctic to write about the formation of the Inuit cooperatives, which transformed the region's social and economic life.
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Medical marijuana businesses in California are expected to operate as non-profit cooperatives, but beginning in January 2018 they can apply to run as for-profit companies, according to the California Franchise Tax Board.
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That's why we've started to see more conversation and activity around cooperatives and the idea of Exiting to Community, spearheaded by Nathan Schneider, a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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The program, approved earlier this year, creates a fund of more than $20 billion for cooperatives, satellite operators and other telecom companies to compete for in order to connect unserved areas across the country.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba unveiled tighter regulations on non-agricultural cooperatives on Friday, including curbs on their prices, in keeping with a broader push to increase control of the growing non-state sector.
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The cooperatives - where each worker has a stake in the business - were legalized in 2012 as part of the government's plan to cut a bloated state payroll and boost the Soviet-style command economy.
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The new regulations stipulate cooperatives cannot pay directors more than three times the lowest-earning member nor hire more contractors than 10 percent of their total members - measures previously announced and now made official.
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So too must there be bureaucracy-free legal forms for the creation of energy collectives, cooperatives and community projects, the kinds that have propelled the energy transition forward in Germany, France, Denmark and Scotland.
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Until 2016, there were subsidies of about 300,000 francs (about $350) for biogas systems, according to Mr. Niyonsaba of the Energy Development Corporation, and financing plans were set up through the country's bank cooperatives.
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Maine also has one of the few viable health insurance cooperatives in the nation, which was hugely popular but has struggled to stay solvent because of high health care costs for Maine's newly insured.
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Germany's 2016 winter barley harvest will fall 2.6 percent on the year to 9.3 million tonnes and the spring barley crop will drop 1.5 percent to 1.9 million tonnes, the farm cooperatives association forecasts.
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The deals included a memorandum of understanding to jointly explore for energy resources, alongside agreements on basic education, agricultural cooperatives and infrastructure projects, Philippines government spokesman J. V. Arcena told CNN at the time.
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In Manbij, where women were once bought and sold as slaves by the Islamic State terrorists, now they run economic cooperatives, serve in the Manbij Military Council and have equal representation in elected councils.
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This money should be provided on a competitive basis without reserving the bulk for the major companies and leaving the smaller ones, like local independent providers, cooperatives and municipalities to fight for the scraps.
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Some existing food cooperatives have tried to address food insecurity by opening satellite locations, but Thompson said they're price points tend to be too high and they aren't community-rooted in the same way.
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Sahara has ploughed at least 20113 billion rupees ($221 million) from two of its credit cooperatives into the Aamby Valley resort project through investments in preference shares, according to documents filed with the companies regulator.
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The network is focused on knowledge sharing to allow the cooperatives to have similar market expertise to multinational traders, but the partners are now also discussing the possibility of jointly negotiating freight terms, he said.
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BUDAPEST, March 21 (Reuters) - Fifty-two Hungarian savings cooperatives will merge into 12 regional savings banks by the end of the year, the integration association of savings banks (SZHISZ) said in a statement on Tuesday.
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On the other hand, those who follow the sector closely say that, at a minimum, the decree would favor industrial-scale producers over smaller cooperatives like Mr. Fazzi's by removing disincentive to large-scale fraud.
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Future goals, says Bowman, should include establishing and enforcing extended boundaries for gorilla habitat areas, creating corridors, stopping illegal mining inside protected areas, and legally establishing artisanal mining cooperatives in areas close to gorilla habitats.
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The Cuban government legalized nonagricultural cooperatives five years ago as part of its strategy for the Communist-run state to pull back slowly from the economy in favor of the private sector and market forces.
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National Association of Housing Cooperatives has a complete list of co-ops, the 6th Principle Coalition lists only limited-equity options, and the Partnerships for Affordable Cohousing provides information on previous and upcoming cohousing projects.
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The price controls apply both to state-run companies that dominate the economy, and a growing private sector of cooperatives, farmers, small businesses and self-employed individuals who, for example, sell produce or drive taxis.
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AND ONE OF THE UNIQUE THINGS WE REALIZED IS BETWEEN THE ASSETS WE HAD A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT COMPANIES THAT WE OPERATE AS COOPERATIVES, WE WERE ABLE TO PUT THOSE TOGETHER AND BRING OUT ZELL.
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The testimonials could counter negative publicity generated by rising premiums, the withdrawal of major insurers like Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealth from many counties, and the collapse of insurance cooperatives in at least a dozen states.
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Of course, if a nominally socialist U.S. president were to be so genuinely socialist as to sponsor worker-owned cooperatives to furnish the planet with wind farms, EVs, and solar arrays, so much the better.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government on Wednesday called a confidence vote over a decree that aims to provide state guarantees to banks seeking to sell bad loans and create a holding company for small credit cooperatives.
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I note, however, that the authors seem more committed to consulting with "vulnerable communities" and "worker cooperatives" (I didn't know we had that many) than with recalcitrant carnivores, or for that matter with energy companies.
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Those include the so-called grain glitch, which inadvertently gave an advantage to agricultural cooperatives over other, independent businesses that farmers might sell to, and a provision that diminishes the tax benefits from renovating restaurants.
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Aladin sells seeds and pesticides to nine cooperatives representing 20.9227,000 farmers and aims to reach 100,000 farmers in the 2020/21 season and sales of 100 million-13 million euros, Chief Executive Thierry Blandinieres said.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. agricultural merchants are scrambling to register themselves as cooperatives after a blunder in the country's new tax law gave farmers a tax break for selling grains to co-ops rather than private firms.
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"The main goal... is strengthening savings cooperatives' efficient and successful operation, using capital in a more concentrated way, lifting sales efficiency ...," said Jozsef Vida, Chairman and CEO of Takarekbank, the sector's umbrella bank, in the statement.
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In Iran, where there has been a spate of protests against mandatory Islamic dress, women and men gathered in front of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare, chanting slogans, videos on social media showed.
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