Iran Oilseeds and Vegetable Oil Factories Co-operative Co

Farda Co-operative has been a member of the International Co-operative Alliance since 2009.

ICA is a non-profit international association established in 1895 to advance the co-operative model. The Alliance is the apex organisation for co-operatives worldwide, representing 284 co-operative federations and organisations across 95 countries (figures of January 2015).

The International Co-operative Alliance works with global and regional governments and organisations to create the legislative environments, that allow co-operatives to form and grow. Towards the public, the Alliance promotes the importance of co-operatives’ values-based business model. The Alliance has made available its global strategy for co-operatives to become the fastest growing form of enterprise by 2020.

Co-operatives generate partial or full-time employment for at least 250 million individuals worldwide, making up almost 12% of the entire employed population of the G20 countries.

Farda Co-operative joined the ICA with the perspective of:

 - Attending the Global Conferences and General Assembly

 - Voting in the Board elections

 - Identifying international business capacities through networking with foreign counterparts