Farmers often form cooperatives, reform communities or put together processing and marketing agreements to cut costs.
We identify producers of high quality handmade items through partnering with non-governmental organizations and cooperatives.
Chavez installed state-owned cooperatives and promoted communal councils to replace decision making by the bureaucracy.
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"But we think cooperatives represent a very good option in the health care debate, " Oemichen said.
Credit unions are not-for-profit financial cooperatives that are prohibited from selling stock or taking on debt.
The latter, known as PDR in Indonesian, backs Adi Sasono, the ambitious cooperatives minister.
Olam sources directly from small agricultural cooperatives or village-level agents who buy directly from farmers.
That further peels off the producers supplying cooperatives, and makes it hard to meet contract obligations.
The latest alternative would be a system of non-profit health insurance cooperatives modeled after rural agriculture co-ops.
Kent Conrad of North Dakota has proposed creating health insurance cooperatives that could arrange collective coverage for members.
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Instead of a public option, the Senate Finance Committee proposal authorizes federal funds to create nonprofit insurance cooperatives.
And, most of that infrastructure was built by Rural Electrical Cooperatives, many of which are still in operation today.
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To add a murky dimension, a good chunk of the fragmented industry consists of cooperatives controlled by powerful politicians.
It was unclear if Obama and the Democratic leadership would accept the cooperatives in place of a public option.
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"Sharia banking will never be a substitute for conventional banks, " says Adi Sasono, who was cooperatives minister under Habibie.
The cooperatives and communal councils provided Chavez with his formidable grassroots political machine.
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Leanne Wood also highlighted the importance of creating cooperatives and community networks for the poorest areas in Wales to thrive.
The government would provide loans to help start the cooperatives and grants to make sure they met state solvency requirements.
They have implemented a program that allows cooperatives to record where coffee is grown and by whom via mobile technology.
With the majority of kibbutzim no longer running as equalized cooperatives, the kibbutz movement, like most socialist movements, has petered out.
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Of the major issuers, MBNA America, Capital One, FleetBoston and Wachovia don't impose fees, and most community banks and cooperatives don't either.
Those talks have focused on creating nonprofit health insurance cooperatives instead of a public option to force competition and lower medical rates.
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The People's Bank of China reported last year that these cooperatives have a combined negative net worth, due primarily to bad loans.
The other bill, from the Senate Finance Committee, includes nonprofit cooperatives instead of a public option and is the proposal supported by Snowe.
Collectivist institutions income cooperatives and the like will emerge to smooth out some of the natural income volatility for older individuals.
When farmers sell their coffee to the narcos, farmer cooperatives can fall short in filling the orders with critical U.S. and European buyers.
The section, which was originally enacted to help farm cooperatives, neglects to limit how much capital or investment income such a company can have.
Conrad says such nonprofit cooperatives would provide competition for private insurers while avoiding the Republican concern of government-funded programs monopolizing the health insurance market.
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They were taught how to organize themselves into cooperatives and respond to a call for tenders from REMA for supplying seedlings to the district.
Now cooperatives are launching and managing mobile information services, curating information (and delivering it in the relevant local language) for farmers in their network.
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