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Al-Khair Welfare Society/Business Group(AKBG)

Country	Pakistan
First Established(Y/M/D)	Al-Khair:1987／BG:2004
Legal Status	Registered with local government
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers	AKBG: 5 members , Idara Al-Khair Welfare Society: 15 members , students in schools: 4000
Main Activities	Import of used clothes and other household goods from Japan. Export of Pakistani ceramics, handicraft and stitched fabric items. (including used-vintage imported clothes in Pakistan.)
Vision/Mission	To establish our unit of production for the material to be exported.To increase our projects to maximum level so as a support to our education wlfare projects.
Website (URL)	http://idaraalkhair.com/

Alternative People’s Linkage in Asia (APLA)

Country	Japan
First Established(Y/M/D)	2008/5/17
Legal Status	Incorporated Non-Profit Organization
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers	323
Main Activities	Support for community building with the idea of centering “local production / local consumption”. Promotion of exchange programs and solidarity activities between urbun citizens and farmers. Participation in social movements. Investigation/advocacy/publicity.
Vision/Mission	Solidarity and collaboration with people seeking for self-reliant community based on primary industries Challenge for establishing alternatives by sharing experiences and wisdom
Website (URL)	https://www.apla.jp/

Alter Trade Corporation(ATC)

オルタ－トレ－ド社

Country	The Philippines
First Established(Y/M/D)	1988/7
Legal Status	Stock Corporation
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Manufacturing and exporting organic and fair trade certified Mascobado sugar primarily to support the displaced sugar workers and agrarian reform beneficiaries to become self sufficient, achieve independence and enjoy life with dignity.
Vision/Mission	As an alternative business organization Alter Trade envision self – reliant and self – determining communities for its partner producers, sugarworkers and agrarian reform beneficiaries where they live in sufficiency and ecologically sustainable life with dignity.
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Alter Trade Japan, Inc. (ATJ)

Country	Japan
First Established(Y/M/D)	1989/10/20
Legal Status	Stock Corporation
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Development of “People to Peple”trade with partner organizations and producers:Mascobado Sugar, Balangon Banana, Eco-Shrimp, Coffee, Olive Oil, Salt of Gerande, Cacao and processed food using these products as ingredients.
Vision/Mission	Being determined and seek for alternative social system, and symbiosis of “people to people” and “people to natural environment” through trading activities as a direct linkage of producers and consumers.
Website (URL)	http://altertrade.jp/

CONSUMERS UNION of JAPAN

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Country	Japan
First Established(Y/M/D)	1969/4/13
Legal Status	Incorporated Non-Profit Organization
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Social activities for the rights of consumers, food safety and self-sufficiency of food, for the promotion of health and conservation of environment, for peace and better livelihood.
Vision/Mission	Fundamental Principle: To hand over sound life to the future generation. Mission: A. To secure safety of life and improved health. B. To institutionalize the rights of consumers. C. To eliminate economic injustice and ensure stabilization of prices. D. To conserve natural environment and seek for recycling society.
Website (URL)	http://nishoren.net/

Cooperative for Rural Development(CORDEV)

Country	The Philippines
First Established(Y/M/D)	2007/10
Legal Status	Government registered Cooperative
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Production and marketing of organic/naturally grown banana, rice, corn, vegetables, coffee, mangos,pineapples, etc.
Vision/Mission	Mission / Grass roots empowerment through : diversified and organic agriculture and people based enterprises through cooperatives development at different levels.through: promotion of people-to-people trade between communities, regions and with people’s cooperatives in other nations. through: enhancement of the awareness of different sectors in organic and sustainable production; environment protection; the rights of indigenous people to development and self determination; and in the promotion of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.Goal / Building a self-sustaining, self-sufficient, self-reliant and independent cooperatives whose members are capable of building their own resources, of producing the basic needs of their family and their community capable of : negotiating for their rights and entitlements; entering into partnership with entities that have similar goals at any levels.
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Oisix ra daichi Inc.

Country	Japan
First Established(Y/M/D)	1975/8/1
Legal Status	Private Organization/Stock Corporation
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Sales of food items and processed food.Home delivery and wholesale.Restaurant.
Vision/Mission	To develop primary industries and seek for the society which is in harmony with natural environment and cares about life on Earth.
Website (URL)	https://www.oisixradaichi.co.jp/

Dure Consumer’s Cooperative Union

Country	Korea
First Established(Y/M/D)	1997/12/22 (Established as a Union)
Legal Status	Consumer’s Cooperative Union
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers	29 member coops,200,000 consumer members
Main Activities	Dure Coop is the organization which supplies safe and reliable commodity with the close relationship with consumer and producer. Dure Coop is the organization which encourages consumers to be a ethical consumer and accelerates sustainable production of producer by providing organic agricultural products and fair trade products. Dure Coop makes contribute toward solving social issues such as environment, ecology, welfare with various cooperatives and local community.
Vision/Mission	Dure cooperative federation aims based on cooperative spirit and help each other A. To promote the development of consumer cooperatives that seek to improve living life and culture B. To develop joint business by planning cooperation of association members mutually C. To facilitate the independent economic activity of association members
Website (URL)	http://dure-coop.or.kr/

Green Coop Consumers’ Cooperative Union

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Country	Japan
First Established(Y/M/D)	1988/3/1 (Established as a Union)
Legal Status	Incorporated Consumer’s Cooperative Union
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Collective purchase and home delivery of fresh food items, processed food, clothing and etc. Mutual insurance.
Vision/Mission	1. Declaration: four Coexostance:=nature and human being, human being and human being, women and men, south and north 2. Principle: To seek our real way of life and genuine livelihood on a basis of “life is everything.” To hand over the green Mother Earth to our children intact.
Website (URL)	http://www.greencoop.or.jp/

Hansalim Cooperative Federation

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Country	Korea
First Established(Y/M/D)	1986/12/4
Legal Status	Incorporated Consumer’s Cooperative Union
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Save Our Table Direct transaction between producer and consumer with eco-friendly organic food. Food education programs and campaigns to keep our health and environment healthy. Take part in the policy-making process and social movement to raise food sovereignty. Save Our Agricultue Expend eco-friendly organic agriculture and food poduction. Run the fund to support farmer to sustain eco-friendly organic farming. Operate various exchange activities between urban and rural communities to strengthen relationship Save Our Life and Earth Education, research and publication to realize the world of peace and life Demonstrate the alternative way of living in harmony with nature and our neighbors.
Vision/Mission	Save Our Table Save Our Agricultue Save Our Life and Earth
Website (URL)	http://www.hansalim.or.kr

Japan Fiber-recycle Solidarity Association(JFSA)

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Country	Japan
First Established(Y/M/D)	1995/10/1
Legal Status	Incorporated Non-Profit Organization
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Promtion of recycling clothing. Support for self-reliance of marginalized people.Support for running schools in slums.
Vision/Mission	To link people seeking for optimal use of resources and people marginalized due to poverty in cooperation with overseas NGO, and materialize optimal use of resources and self-reliant livelihood.
Website (URL)	http://jfsa.jpn.org/

Kdalak Sulimutuk Institute(KSI)

Country	East Timor
First Established(Y/M/D)	2002/7/18
Legal Status	NGO registered at NGOs’ Forum
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Attaining fair and peaceful world where all people can live in self-reliance and prosperity of sustainable lives. Mission: Conflict Transformation：Strengthening traditional laws through “Tarabandu” as peace building project. Social Transformation： Cooperative empowerment, food processing, comparative study, workshop, nursery of coffee seedling.
Vision/Mission	Mission/ Conducting research,informal education, grass roots empowermentand network advocacy with two main programs of conflict transformation and social transformation.
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Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee(PARC)

Country	Palestine
First Established(Y/M/D)	1993
Legal Status	Registered NGO/Stock Corporation
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Rural development, protection of farmers rights, womens’ rights, emergency relief, export of farm products / processed products, etc.
Vision/Mission	PARC is a pioneer national developmental organization with a regional trend committed to rural and agricultural development, social justice and national liberation \ We strive to develop the agricultural sector, strengthen the resilience of farmers, reach out to the poor and marginalized groups and their CBO’s, mobilize and develop the capabilities of rural people to enable them to control their resources, through the work of a distinguished professional teams and a loyal volunteers. This has been accomplished through creative programs and transparent management and through technical practices to contribute to the establishment of a free and democratic Palestinian society with the values of social justice.
Website (URL)	http://www.pal-arc.org/

Palsystem Consumer’s Cooparative Union

Country	Japan
First Established(Y/M/D)	1990/2(Established as a Union)
Legal Status	Incorporated Consumer’s Cooperative Union
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Collective purchase and home delivery of food and other items.Mutual nsurance. Education and Training of member consumers.
Vision/Mission	Fundamental Principle: To create a livelihood affluent in heart and a society with symbiosis. Business Principle: To Conduct business in harmony with environment and contribute to the livlihood of members through cooperative power. Organizational Principle: To care about “coexistance with diversity” and extend the link of cooperation and solidarity. To realize wide-ranging member participation and conduct of the organization open to the community.
Website (URL)	http://www.pal.or.jp/

P.TAlter Trade Indonesia(ATINA)

Country	Indonesia
First Established(Y/M/D)	2003/5/23
Legal Status	Stock Corporation
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Processing and Export of Eco-shrimp and other seafood products.
Vision/Mission	Vision: To be market leader and integrated product with slogan “Safety Food for Quality Life”. Mission: Create the mutually benefitable relationship between all the stakeholder High quality standard for comodities produced Realize the environmental friendly industry Support small scales farmer for having sustainable traditional farming.
Website (URL)	http://www.atina.co.id/

Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Cooperative Union

Country	Japan
First Established(Y/M/D)	1989（Established as a Union)
Legal Status	Incorporated Consumer’s Cooperative Union
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Collective purchase and supply of food and other items (product development, delivery and quality control). Publication of PR brochure. Internationa Exchange.
Vision/Mission	From Seikatsu Club Union Charter: To place and develop concepts of safety, health, environment and cooperative spirits as core value and enhence social economic influence. To unite primary cooperatives to contribute local community form sustainable “FEC self-reliant network” where supply Foods, Energy and Care for ourselves. To always keep a firm position for no war and coexistance to seek for peace and better environment, basic infrastructure for sustainable economy, society and culture.
Website (URL)	http://www.seikatsuclub.coop/about/english.html

Union of Agricultural Work Committees(UAWC)

Country	Palestine
First Established(Y/M/D)	1986
Legal Status	Registered NGO
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Agricutural services, Advocacy for farmers’ rights, emergency relief, empowerment of womens’ capability, strengthening of organizational and financial resources.
Vision/Mission	To maintain food security in agricultural society that is firmly connected to its land in free Palestinian independent state, while contributing effectively in social, political and economic life without discrimination.Mission /To improve the living conditions of the Palestinian agricultural society, within a comprehensive framework of sustainable development in a manner that would enhance self-reliance and activate the role of local agricutural committees and the concept of voluntary and team work.
Website (URL)	http://www.uawc-pal.org/

Yayasan Pengembangan Masyarakat Desa,Papua(YPMD)

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Country	Indonesia
First Established(Y/M/D)	1984/12/8
Legal Status	Registered Foundation incorporated
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Rural economy development based on local potentials：Economic empowerment program for cacao producing communities with saving program.
Vision/Mission	To make indigenous local Papuan people self-reliance in economic, social, political and legal aspects along with developing traditional local value and with having them integrated with universal values.Participatory people’s empowerment, education and training, information management and distribution, conflict mediation and economic empowerment based on local capacity.
Website (URL)

PACOS Trust (Partners of Community Organizations)(PACOS)

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Country	Malaysia
First Established(Y/M/D)	1996/7/25
Legal Status	Incorporated Trust
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities
Vision/Mission
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Allah Valley Development foundation Inc.(AVDFI)

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Country	the Philippines
First Established(Y/M/D)	1989/10/20
Legal Status	Foundation
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities
Vision/Mission
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Alter Trade Employees’ Credit Cooperative(ATECCO)

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Country	The Philippines
First Established(Y/M/D)	2012/11/1
Legal Status	Cooperative Development Authority (CDA)
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Microlending Project; Do- It- Yourself learning activities; Food safety advocay.
Vision/Mission	Vision: ATECCO envision a strong and economically viable cooperative, dedicated to uplift the quality of life of its members. Mission: Engage in various enterprises that creates economic opportunities, ensures supply of safe, healthy and traceable products and develop members as consumers and advocates of healthy and safe food.
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Alter Trade Timor(ATT)

Country	Timor Leste
First Established(Y/M/D)	2008/5/29
Legal Status	Limited Company
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Collect, process and export cofee beans. Assist farmers to produce high quality coffee beans for export for uplifting their standard of living
Vision/Mission	Sustainable and independent livelihood and social economy for East Timor people. And promote East Timor coffee in the world by improving quality and expanding market through people to people trade.
Website (URL)

Altertrade Philippines Foundation for Food Sovereignty, Inc(ATPF)

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Country	The Philippines
First Established(Y/M/D)	2016/2/20
Legal Status	Incorporated Non-Profit Organization
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Production Program – Balangon banana, Sugarcane and other Agricultural products. Undertaken together with small partner growers in Negros island to uplift their economic condition and develop partnership among its concumer partners in the Philippines, Japan, Europe etc. Credit Assistance Program – Assisting producers by extending financila loans with reasonable interests for increasing productivity and income. Organizational Development – Core program that encompasses to all other programs of the foundation.
Vision/Mission	Vision – self-reliant and self-determining communties where small producers live sufficiently and ecologically sustainable life with dignityMission – a development organization that aims to alleviate poverty and empowering marginalized producers in rural communities
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MANUSHI

Country	Nepal
First Established(Y/M/D)	1991
Legal Status	NGO
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	Budilding capacity and empowerment of low income marginalized, poor and indigenous communities. Focus on micro-enterprise development providing loans to the poorest of the poor through Micro-credit. Traning in technical artisan skills, business practices, enterpreneurial methodologies and financial management.Education on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion as well as prevention of violence.
Vision/Mission	Aiming to promote the low income, disadvantaged and marginalized women and men in the world of work through training, facilitating and placing them in diverse gainful activities including handicrafts and small business Enhance social and economic Status of especially low income, disadvantaged and marginalized people especially women.
Website (URL)	www.manushiarts.com

Manushi Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha

Country	Nepal
First Established(Y/M/D)	2018/11/17
Legal Status	D-Class Bank
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	– Identification of target area for Microfinance Program – Identification of target groups – Organizing of pre-group training for motion of groups – Organizing monthly meetings to collect savings , loan installment, extended loans, review problems & needs etc – Organizing regular training activities and other skill development programs
Vision/Mission	Vision – To uplift economic and social livelihood of people in hills and mountain region through micro finance services Mission – To become every Rural Nepali’s banking partner by extending all types of micro financial services. Goal – To uplift economic condition of deprived people by optimally mobilizing local resources and making participative development process through micro finance services related programs.
Website (URL)	www.manushiarts.com

PT KAKAO KITA PAPUA

Country	Indonesia
First Established(Y/M/D)	2019/6/13
Legal Status	Registered domestic company
Number of Primary Coop Members and Consumers
Main Activities	– Purchase cacao beans from farmers in Province of Papua and processed into semi-finished products and final products in Jawa and export to Japan for selling. – Produce chocolate products from beans at in-house production units and sell them locally in Papua. – Operate Café to promote locally produced cacao products.
Vision/Mission	– Support indigenous Papuan’s initiatives for economic development with Papuan centered business activities. – Support naturally grown Cacao production by indigenous Papuan farmers so that the indigenous’ life style of living with nature is sustained.
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