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 WestCooperatives 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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