Publications
Over the past 3 years COPAC has increasingly developed a research and conference based advocacy focus. The publications from these programme based activities can be sourced on this website and can be used for research, policy development and movement building.
Featured publications
This research report focuses on twenty case studies of successful cooperatives on the African continent. It also includes case studies on two successful cooperative colleges on the continent.
COPAC is putting this discussion document into the public arena to stimulate a debate about how to rebuild the cooperative movement in post-apartheid South Africa. After two failed attempts, through top down interventions, the document argues for the rebuilding of the cooperative movement from below as a movement -of -movements.
New publications
This publication provides an important literature survey of cooperative experiences from different parts of the global South. It includes insights into cooperative development from Venezuela, Cuba and Ethiopia.