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October 2012

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   World Food Day

   ILO says cooperatives key to boosting food production

   16 October 2012

   Agricultural cooperatives – the theme of the 2012 World Food Day – are a vehicle for decent lives and decent work, according to ILO Director-General Guy Ryder.

July 2007

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   Article

   International Day of Cooperatives 2007 - Seeds of change: cooperatives in Ethiopia

   05 July 2007

   Celebrated annually on the first Saturday of July, the International Day of Cooperatives highlights this year how cooperatives can promote corporate social responsibility by their very nature as enterprises that balance economic, environmental, and social imperatives. ILO Online reports from Ethiopia where the ILO helped to organize more than 100,000 coffee producers in 115 cooperatives.

May 2006

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   Dutch government supports Decent Work Country Programmes

   30 May 2006

   The Government of the Netherlands will provide 38.5 million dollars to support the launch of the ILO Decent Work Country Programme strategy over the next four years.