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Fonterra has been supplying the country's National Dairy Development Board with dairy products over the last two years, which is distributed through various farmer co-operatives.
Fonterra Eyes India's Booming Dairy Sector R. Jai Krishna 2011
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Fonterra has been supplying the country's National Dairy Development Board with dairy products over the last two years, which is distributed through various farmer co-operatives.
Fonterra Eyes India's Booming Dairy Sector R. Jai Krishna 2011
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Public sector workers encouraged to form John Lewis-style co-operatives
MPs condemn coalition's bonfire of the quangos as botched 2011
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USAid is working with co-operatives in countries such as Uganda.
Rajiv Shah: Our aid work is for the American people | Madeleine Bunting 2011
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"There's the opportunity to capitalise on what the government is saying around mutuals and workers' co-operatives and develop genuinely new models that give service users and staff a stronger 'say' but also protect essential public services from the destructive forces of market competition."
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John Harris seems beguiled by the Tories' rhetorical support for co-operatives and by Jesse Norman MP, the chair of Conservative Co-operatives From John Lewis to workers' co-ops: these Tories love wrongfooting the left, 18 April.
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Wherever one looks across this government's programme, you can see support for co-operatives being threatened or withdrawn.
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It is also crucial to help small producers organise themselves into co-operatives and unions to strengthen their positions in food chains, and to collaborate with governments in designing programmes that benefit them.4 Support the capacity of all countries to feed themselves by strategies based on the right to food.
Food crises: five priorities for the G20 | Olivier De Schutter 2011
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Chris Huhne is withdrawing support for solar renewable energy co-operatives, forcing many to close down.
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The truth is that the real Big Society was created over 200y ago with the formation of the trade unions, the mutual societies and the co-operatives.
Project Merlin: Mr Osborne's paltry deal with the banks insults the taxpayer | Observer editorial 2011
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