October 2017
US-Cuba Cooperative Working Group brings a Cuban delegate to the 2017 Co-op Impact Conference
April 2017
Continuing exchanges Organic Valley hosts Cuban farmer at US farming Conference
March 2017
US-Cuba Cooperative Working Group launches 2017 Report
January 2017
GOA Report recommends continued analysis on Cuba
January 2017
First Cuban export in 50 years comes from a cooperative
November 2015
As part of its work to promote and link U.S. and Cuban cooperatives, U.S. Co-ops signs an historic agreement with SCENIUS, a non-agricultural professional services cooperative. It is the first formal agreement between the countries’ co-op sectors.
U.S. Co-ops sign MOU with Cuban cooperative to advance the sector
June 2015
Nearly one year after its initial research and education trip to Cuba, the U.S. – Cuba Cooperative Working Group returned to the country to participate in an international workshop focused on local development, including the role of cooperatives.
Second U.S. Co-ops trip to Cuba advances U.S. – Cuba Cooperative Working Group
May 2015
U.S. Co-ops’s U.S. – Cuba Cooperative Working Group hosted a delegation of five Cubans from Cuba’s emerging cooperative sector in May 2015 as part of Co-op Week. The delegation met with members of Congress, toured local co-ops and spoke on a panel at American University.
U.S. Co-ops’s U.S. – Cuba Cooperative Working Group highlights Cuban experience during American University panel discussion
April 2015
During his testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, U.S. Co-ops president and CEO Mike Beall said co-ops are the bedrock of a market-based economy in Cuba.
Watch U.S. Co-ops CEO Mike Beall testify before the Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on U.S. – Cuba trade
March 2015
U.S. Co-ops’s March 2015 launch of the U.S. – Cuba Cooperative Working Group took place simultaneously with negotiations by the U.S. Government to begin rebuilding the economic relationship between the two countries and drew the attention of Washington, D.C.-area media and officials.
U.S. Co-ops promotes Cuba’s emerging co-op sector at formal launch of U.S. – Cuba Cooperative Working Group
December 2014
United States President Barack Obama announced plans in December 2014 to normalize diplomatic ties with Cuba, marking a historic shift in U.S. – Cuba relations and better positioning the U.S. cooperative movement to support Cuba’s emerging co-op sector.
U.S. Co-ops prepared to engage with growing Cuban co-op sector through U.S. cooperatives
July 2014
U.S. Co-ops led a research and education trip to Cuba in July 2014 to gain a clearer picture of the cooperative movement there, which observers say is playing an increasingly significant role in the country’s push for economic development.
U.S. – Cuba Cooperative Working Group researches Co-op movement in country