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On: Wed, 26/01/2012 23:41
Baghdad: Naseer Ahmed
Represents the cooperative societies an important aspect of economic activity and a key element in community development programs, which is based on a foundation of self-initiative and collective participation of the citizens, and are based largely on the physical and human resources of local, and some see it as one of the aspects of the theory of socialism, which aims to help Slide a limited income, but the experience of association and although by the world and even Iraqis, but it turned out to be a tool to achieve beneficial to slice the department concerned, and yet again the United Nations, this time due to the worsening problem of hunger in many countries to declare the year 2012 overview of the associations in order to reduce the effects of famine through the association. Said Jose Graziano da Silva, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations "FAO", that cooperatives and producer organizations are expected to play an increasingly important role in efforts to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty around the world ... Speaking before the Social Forum, the objective for the year 2012 "TSF" port of Porto Alegre Brazil in the context of a formal meeting of the Council of Economic and Social Development in Brazil "CDES". And Graziano da Silva attended the annual meeting of NGOs and social movements after less than a month he took the helm of the Organization "FAO", as a United Nations agency devoted to work to promote food security levels. The Director-General of the Organization that the United Nations declared the year 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives, reflecting the renewed interest in cooperatives and their role, and the need to raise awareness on a larger scale, as well as multi-faceted value of cooperatives. Told Graziano da Silva, the meeting that the Organization "FAO" plans to step up its cooperation with the producer organizations, rural cooperatives, food and agriculture that give more influence social, economic and regulatory smallholder farmers Minor, and the shepherds, and populations dependent on fishing and forest resources as a source of livelihood. The Director General said that "the organization 'FAO' stands in need of strong cooperatives and producer organizations active key partners, to support its efforts to eradicate hunger in the case of about 925 million ... In response to the many challenges facing our world today." He stressed that "the organization is committed to exploring the impact of cooperatives and producer organizations for the promotion of food security at the international level and participate in the dissemination of evidence in this regard, and to strengthen its ties with such groups." And Cooperatives, ranging from the limited scope of the business value that may amount to millions of dollars, across the globe in all sectors of the economy and in urban and rural areas alike. It is estimated that the International Cooperative Alliance "ICA" that such gatherings in its ranks more than 800 million active member. In 2008, the sessions of the capital of three hundred cooperatives, the largest in the world around 1.1 trillion U.S. dollars, which compares with gross domestic product of many major countries. The Experience shows that small-scale farmers and other producers have succeeded thanks to their membership of groups most influential in the negotiation of better terms in contracts, and lower the prices of agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, fishing gear, as well as reducing the risk margin, and gain higher reliability to ensure the acquisition of land rights and improve the chances marketing. Similarly confirmed Adalberto Martinez, one of the leaders of the movement of Brazilian workers destitute "MST", and User Group in the framework of an agricultural cooperative small southern Brazil, that "the cooperatives a necessary foundation for creating a new social environment, and assist in the organization of production. And without the contribution of cooperatives will be difficult to achieve the goal of food security on a sustainable basis. " And live about 75 percent of poor rural areas of developing countries. While most of these supports as small producers directly on agriculture, fishing, forestry, and livestock as a resource for food and income often lack the resources and opportunities to lift themselves out of extreme poverty cycle. In 2011, he helped more than 180 program and a project of the Organization "FAO" to strengthen producers' organizations, cooperatives and associations of indigenous peoples, and support the achievement of organizational objectives. They covered a range of activities and interventions in many countries: It was announced Graziano da Silva, also of the Organization "FAO" is to allow for the formation of liaison offices with cooperatives, private sector and civil society in its main headquarters. Although Iraq was among the first countries that went to the development of laws on associations consumption in 1922, and was the birth of the first cooperative consumer in 1937 in Baghdad, rolled after the movement of the development of this sector, which meant specific classes of poor and low-income and continued to work until the fall of the former regime, and surprise everyone by a decision of the civil administrator of Iraq, then Paul Bremer to dissolve the Union Dhana him that he went to a security or a state if other associations of political and regulatory, which prompted EU officials to conduct a visit to the primer indicated to him that the Union on the commercial sector and consumer goods drive, return it, but the realization of the activity semi-frozen until a year ago from now returned this sector repairing itself and heal the wounds waiting for government support for it. (citizen) had previously met with the President of the Federation Mohammed Tariq Karim, who start talking Baltarig on the most important joints of this sector, which started its activities since 1922 and begin the establishment of consumer associations in turn until they reached the preparation in 1967, more of 848 of which 77 consumer and 366 for the construction of housing and 400 agricultural and 7 productivity and 2 of the Credit and savings and one for agricultural marketing, stressing that during the second Gulf War was the Union to heavy losses by the bombing of buildings, and in 2004 the cabinet issued a directive not be regarded as the Union of the dissolved entities, and the authorization of a ministerial committee to oversee the activity and its realization. and on the structure of the Union existing between the cream there are organizations and also the activities of the first divided into the General Union for Cooperation and Cooperation Fund and the Cooperative Union in the provinces, associations, and other joint and also central and institutes for the preparation and training, or activities, there are consumer associations with more of 121 Assembly and there are productivity and also service to provide various services to the population in addition to the associations of housing and take it upon themselves to provide tracts of land and divided at subsidized prices to the citizens of non-beneficiaries of the government and we add to all these activities, a recent program on investment and the conclusion of agreements with the countries of seconds for the development of collaborative work. and on balances The name of the Union before the year 2003 and were frozen? Between that of these stocks were frozen until the year was launched by government decision, but we consider that launched a great loss what good is it a huge amounts frozen for a long time and a loss of value if they move within the market. How to cope with the economic reality of Iraq, who went from the sector overall and the government to the sector market, he explained that Arab cooperation extended an invitation to Iraq recently to be part of a platform for direct conversion, as exempt Federation and the activities of all fees, taxes, and here we will work without a competitor, we are not traders but service organization of citizen import and believe in the goods and services we offer without a profit margin of only operating profit, stressing that in the absence of application fees composting ownership will go to spend there dumping the Iraqi market in goods that poor utilized only segment of traders and industrialized countries. complained President of the Federation of the laws of the municipalities that Taatsorna the private sector and requires us to charge instead of rents high and this does not serve us, but we have a real estate king disbursement of us can be exploited for the dissemination of our services and our goods at subsidized prices and, unfortunately, are also seeing the case of negative economic in Iraq is up continuously prices of all goods and services and are burdened with the citizen, who is spending all its resources to secure a living and slice very little you can save and saving, or spending on welfare, and is due rise to constant prices to the merchant Iraqi, Arab and foreign does not think the impact of margin of profit on the ability of procurement to the citizen but also calculates the value of his goods from the origin and adds its transportation, fees and services and thus to bring to the consumer, but we reject such mechanisms, we turn for example to secure the transfer of a special EU from other countries and add only fuel costs, operation and offer our support to the farmers secured the seed, fertilizer, plastic sheeting provided to bring his crops to the associations and sold at subsidized prices. and over the opening to the outside of Iraqi law within us to complete contracts with any local company or a foreign and we have a decade now with Bio German specialized agriculture, and we started to buy products and distribute them to farmers who are Alan class very poor in the society due to suspension of government support for this sector and we took upon ourselves to support this segment, as mentioned above, and if our desire will stop farming in Iraq because of competition and the lack of funds to the farms. accused the cream of some neighboring countries, particularly those that continue to supply agricultural products to the Iraqi market as flood the market with its products at prices even less than their prices in their markets have been deliberately in order to create a competitive environment can not be addressed by the farms of Iraq and here resort to work in other sectors, leaving agriculture, here is the food security of Iraq is threatened, and at the mercy of those States which plans must be drawn to it by the Iraqi government, and includes also planned sector, animal husbandry and poultry, where countries are starting to buy sheep, camels and maintained at any price being offered Unfortunately, we heard that they do not invest in these animals, but deliberately eliminated to destroy the Iraqi economy. and on the industrial sector of Iraq between it In the past, we sponsor many sectors, especially textiles, clothing and Instrumentation Alan parked most of the plants and try to re-coordinate with them and market their products despite the intense competition for foreign goods. He pointed out that most of our society did not do so now because of the freezing of assets but there are associations class of ministries is working but the prices are not encouraging and the approach to the market but now it will import a central and reliable outlets of old, and made us a lot of offers from Arab and foreign companies and local and in the areas of housing and agricultural and service which offers under study. cooperation with the Arab federation, regional said, we do not need to see their expertise as we Sbaknahm contracts, but the problems experienced by Iraq caused by foot-dragging, and that Iraq suffers from a lack of our officials of government awareness about such sectors and imagine sleep Seoul with a high degree I asked him to support sector cooperation replied how not to support it and we have a ministry of cooperation I told him, namely the Ministry of the individual and the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, this level is responsible. and the housing sector we have motionless on this like the countries of European-based associations to secure housing units unlike Iraq, which oversees the sector Ministry of Housing may not be so intersections, if the government was wrong to book? Assumed by planning only there the circumstances must be eliminated, as is the case in the Ministry of Commerce, which engage in trade it is to book, but we currently have plots of land will transfer to the complexes and the beneficiary is a public non-staff who are still without government support, because the latter directed its support to the employee only and neglected the citizens normal.
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On: Wed, 26/01/2012 23:41
Baghdad: Naseer Ahmed
Represents the cooperative societies an important aspect of economic activity and a key element in community development programs, which is based on a foundation of self-initiative and collective participation of the citizens, and are based largely on the physical and human resources of local, and some see it as one of the aspects of the theory of socialism, which aims to help Slide a limited income, but the experience of association and although by the world and even Iraqis, but it turned out to be a tool to achieve beneficial to slice the department concerned, and yet again the United Nations, this time due to the worsening problem of hunger in many countries to declare the year 2012 overview of the associations in order to reduce the effects of famine through the association. Said Jose Graziano da Silva, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations "FAO", that cooperatives and producer organizations are expected to play an increasingly important role in efforts to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty around the world ... Speaking before the Social Forum, the objective for the year 2012 "TSF" port of Porto Alegre Brazil in the context of a formal meeting of the Council of Economic and Social Development in Brazil "CDES". And Graziano da Silva attended the annual meeting of NGOs and social movements after less than a month he took the helm of the Organization "FAO", as a United Nations agency devoted to work to promote food security levels. The Director-General of the Organization that the United Nations declared the year 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives, reflecting the renewed interest in cooperatives and their role, and the need to raise awareness on a larger scale, as well as multi-faceted value of cooperatives. Told Graziano da Silva, the meeting that the Organization "FAO" plans to step up its cooperation with the producer organizations, rural cooperatives, food and agriculture that give more influence social, economic and regulatory smallholder farmers Minor, and the shepherds, and populations dependent on fishing and forest resources as a source of livelihood. The Director General said that "the organization 'FAO' stands in need of strong cooperatives and producer organizations active key partners, to support its efforts to eradicate hunger in the case of about 925 million ... In response to the many challenges facing our world today." He stressed that "the organization is committed to exploring the impact of cooperatives and producer organizations for the promotion of food security at the international level and participate in the dissemination of evidence in this regard, and to strengthen its ties with such groups." And Cooperatives, ranging from the limited scope of the business value that may amount to millions of dollars, across the globe in all sectors of the economy and in urban and rural areas alike. It is estimated that the International Cooperative Alliance "ICA" that such gatherings in its ranks more than 800 million active member. In 2008, the sessions of the capital of three hundred cooperatives, the largest in the world around 1.1 trillion U.S. dollars, which compares with gross domestic product of many major countries. The Experience shows that small-scale farmers and other producers have succeeded thanks to their membership of groups most influential in the negotiation of better terms in contracts, and lower the prices of agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, fishing gear, as well as reducing the risk margin, and gain higher reliability to ensure the acquisition of land rights and improve the chances marketing. Similarly confirmed Adalberto Martinez, one of the leaders of the movement of Brazilian workers destitute "MST", and User Group in the framework of an agricultural cooperative small southern Brazil, that "the cooperatives a necessary foundation for creating a new social environment, and assist in the organization of production. And without the contribution of cooperatives will be difficult to achieve the goal of food security on a sustainable basis. " And live about 75 percent of poor rural areas of developing countries. While most of these supports as small producers directly on agriculture, fishing, forestry, and livestock as a resource for food and income often lack the resources and opportunities to lift themselves out of extreme poverty cycle. In 2011, he helped more than 180 program and a project of the Organization "FAO" to strengthen producers' organizations, cooperatives and associations of indigenous peoples, and support the achievement of organizational objectives. They covered a range of activities and interventions in many countries: It was announced Graziano da Silva, also of the Organization "FAO" is to allow for the formation of liaison offices with cooperatives, private sector and civil society in its main headquarters. Although Iraq was among the first countries that went to the development of laws on associations consumption in 1922, and was the birth of the first cooperative consumer in 1937 in Baghdad, rolled after the movement of the development of this sector, which meant specific classes of poor and low-income and continued to work until the fall of the former regime, and surprise everyone by a decision of the civil administrator of Iraq, then Paul Bremer to dissolve the Union Dhana him that he went to a security or a state if other associations of political and regulatory, which prompted EU officials to conduct a visit to the primer indicated to him that the Union on the commercial sector and consumer goods drive, return it, but the realization of the activity semi-frozen until a year ago from now returned this sector repairing itself and heal the wounds waiting for government support for it. (citizen) had previously met with the President of the Federation Mohammed Tariq Karim, who start talking Baltarig on the most important joints of this sector, which started its activities since 1922 and begin the establishment of consumer associations in turn until they reached the preparation in 1967, more of 848 of which 77 consumer and 366 for the construction of housing and 400 agricultural and 7 productivity and 2 of the Credit and savings and one for agricultural marketing, stressing that during the second Gulf War was the Union to heavy losses by the bombing of buildings, and in 2004 the cabinet issued a directive not be regarded as the Union of the dissolved entities, and the authorization of a ministerial committee to oversee the activity and its realization. and on the structure of the Union existing between the cream there are organizations and also the activities of the first divided into the General Union for Cooperation and Cooperation Fund and the Cooperative Union in the provinces, associations, and other joint and also central and institutes for the preparation and training, or activities, there are consumer associations with more of 121 Assembly and there are productivity and also service to provide various services to the population in addition to the associations of housing and take it upon themselves to provide tracts of land and divided at subsidized prices to the citizens of non-beneficiaries of the government and we add to all these activities, a recent program on investment and the conclusion of agreements with the countries of seconds for the development of collaborative work. and on balances The name of the Union before the year 2003 and were frozen? Between that of these stocks were frozen until the year was launched by government decision, but we consider that launched a great loss what good is it a huge amounts frozen for a long time and a loss of value if they move within the market. How to cope with the economic reality of Iraq, who went from the sector overall and the government to the sector market, he explained that Arab cooperation extended an invitation to Iraq recently to be part of a platform for direct conversion, as exempt Federation and the activities of all fees, taxes, and here we will work without a competitor, we are not traders but service organization of citizen import and believe in the goods and services we offer without a profit margin of only operating profit, stressing that in the absence of application fees composting ownership will go to spend there dumping the Iraqi market in goods that poor utilized only segment of traders and industrialized countries. complained President of the Federation of the laws of the municipalities that Taatsorna the private sector and requires us to charge instead of rents high and this does not serve us, but we have a real estate king disbursement of us can be exploited for the dissemination of our services and our goods at subsidized prices and, unfortunately, are also seeing the case of negative economic in Iraq is up continuously prices of all goods and services and are burdened with the citizen, who is spending all its resources to secure a living and slice very little you can save and saving, or spending on welfare, and is due rise to constant prices to the merchant Iraqi, Arab and foreign does not think the impact of margin of profit on the ability of procurement to the citizen but also calculates the value of his goods from the origin and adds its transportation, fees and services and thus to bring to the consumer, but we reject such mechanisms, we turn for example to secure the transfer of a special EU from other countries and add only fuel costs, operation and offer our support to the farmers secured the seed, fertilizer, plastic sheeting provided to bring his crops to the associations and sold at subsidized prices. and over the opening to the outside of Iraqi law within us to complete contracts with any local company or a foreign and we have a decade now with Bio German specialized agriculture, and we started to buy products and distribute them to farmers who are Alan class very poor in the society due to suspension of government support for this sector and we took upon ourselves to support this segment, as mentioned above, and if our desire will stop farming in Iraq because of competition and the lack of funds to the farms. accused the cream of some neighboring countries, particularly those that continue to supply agricultural products to the Iraqi market as flood the market with its products at prices even less than their prices in their markets have been deliberately in order to create a competitive environment can not be addressed by the farms of Iraq and here resort to work in other sectors, leaving agriculture, here is the food security of Iraq is threatened, and at the mercy of those States which plans must be drawn to it by the Iraqi government, and includes also planned sector, animal husbandry and poultry, where countries are starting to buy sheep, camels and maintained at any price being offered Unfortunately, we heard that they do not invest in these animals, but deliberately eliminated to destroy the Iraqi economy. and on the industrial sector of Iraq between it In the past, we sponsor many sectors, especially textiles, clothing and Instrumentation Alan parked most of the plants and try to re-coordinate with them and market their products despite the intense competition for foreign goods. He pointed out that most of our society did not do so now because of the freezing of assets but there are associations class of ministries is working but the prices are not encouraging and the approach to the market but now it will import a central and reliable outlets of old, and made us a lot of offers from Arab and foreign companies and local and in the areas of housing and agricultural and service which offers under study. cooperation with the Arab federation, regional said, we do not need to see their expertise as we Sbaknahm contracts, but the problems experienced by Iraq caused by foot-dragging, and that Iraq suffers from a lack of our officials of government awareness about such sectors and imagine sleep Seoul with a high degree I asked him to support sector cooperation replied how not to support it and we have a ministry of cooperation I told him, namely the Ministry of the individual and the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, this level is responsible. and the housing sector we have motionless on this like the countries of European-based associations to secure housing units unlike Iraq, which oversees the sector Ministry of Housing may not be so intersections, if the government was wrong to book? Assumed by planning only there the circumstances must be eliminated, as is the case in the Ministry of Commerce, which engage in trade it is to book, but we currently have plots of land will transfer to the complexes and the beneficiary is a public non-staff who are still without government support, because the latter directed its support to the employee only and neglected the citizens normal.
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