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Developing Countries: Cooperatives

Commons · Question 42724 · Tabled 31 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 7 Apr 2025

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Asked by Preet Kaur Gill

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential role of cooperative models in strengthening economic resilience in developing countries.

Answer

Answered by Catherine West, 7 Apr 2025

Cooperatives and producer organisations have an important role to play in enabling smallholder farmers and communities to access services and markets and raise productivity sustainably. The UK has supported cooperatives and other forms of collective actio...