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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"Sharia banking will never be a substitute for conventional banks, " says Adi Sasono, who was cooperatives minister under Habibie.
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.
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 other bill, from the Senate Finance Committee, includes nonprofit cooperatives instead of a public option and is the proposal supported by Snowe.
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.
The Visa and Mastercard networks were essentially huge cooperatives that gave all banks a piece of the lucrative consumer credit industry on an equal footing.
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Second, new products can be innovated, such as providing long-term financing to cooperatives, addressing working capital needs, and developing on-lending schemes to finance group members.
Peace Coffee , for example, is spearheaded by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and sources coffee from farmer cooperatives around the world.
That complexity is represented by the wines made in Burgundy and Bordeaux, which operate under the AOC system (controlled appellations that are in reality brand cooperatives).
Groups tend to discuss issues and make consensus decisions democratically, rather than defer to charismatic leaders, and there are many businesses and organizations formed as cooperatives.
But there's a global olive oil crisis: the regional government had to inject 62m euros into olive oil cooperatives to get them through the collapse in prices.
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