Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 42724

Developing Countries: Cooperatives

Tabled: 31 March 2025
Answered: 7 April 2025

Question

Preet Kaur Gill

Labour (Co-op)Birmingham Edgbaston

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

Catherine West
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...

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