Canada

A cooperative world is a better world!

A cooperative world is a better world!

22 February 2024

To celebrate International Development Week (February 4–10), our team hit the road to visit several of our network’s member institutions.

Meet SOCODEVI’s new Chair of the Board!

Meet SOCODEVI’s new Chair of the Board!

Céline Delhaes is a Director at Agropur, one of our member institutions—and as of December 2023, she is the new Chair of SOCODEVI’s own Board of Directors. We wanted to get to know Céline a bit better, so our team sat down with this inspiring woman to talk about the impressive path that led her to SOCODEVI. Enjoy!

Generating resilience through collective actions!

Generating resilience through collective actions!

6 June 2023

The resilience generated by collective actions and the cooperative model was at the heart of discussions at the event "Solidarity-based actions for the resilience of agri-food systems and smallholder farmers", held on May 31 at McGill University in the presence of the President of the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Alvaro Lario.

Environment: our star teams!

Environment: our star teams!

2 June 2022

To reduce our environmental footprint, our teams work together and commit to improving their practices year after year. That's why, to celebrate World Environment Day, we want to highlight our champion teams. Discover our five country offices that stood out for their environmental management in 2021-2022.

Solidarity with the Ukrainian people

Solidarity with the Ukrainian people

30 March 2022

SOCODEVI's team in Canada makes daily efforts to maintain contact with its partners and assist with humanitarian initiatives.

SOCODEVI: STILL CARBON NEUTRAL IN 2022!

SOCODEVI: STILL CARBON NEUTRAL IN 2022!

17 March 2022

“SOCODEVI is proud to renew its carbon neutral certification for a second consecutive year. We continue to set ourselves apart and conduct our operations in alignment with our principles and values.” – JEAN-PHILIPPE MARCOUX, SOCODEVI CEO

Tree of Intercooperation: Solidarity for a Greener Future!

Tree of Intercooperation: Solidarity for a Greener Future!

15 April 2021

The program was initially designed to uphold SOCODEVI’s environmental responsibility commitments and those of its member institutions (cooperatives and mutual organizations in Quebec). Since the project was launched in 2009, no fewer than 5,593.6 tons of CO2-eq have been offset by the planting of 207,756

New SOCODEVI Executive Director

New SOCODEVI Executive Director

17 December 2019

The board of directors of SOCODEVI is pleased to announce the nomination of Jean-Philippe Marcoux to the position of executive director for the organization. Mr. Marcoux has vast international experience with American and Canadian development organizations. Throughout his international journey, he has developed a strong

Golf, cooperation and solidarity profiting the SOCODEVI Foundation

Golf, cooperation and solidarity profiting the SOCODEVI Foundation

It’s the thousands of families supported by SOCODEVI around the world that were the big winners of the 13th annual golf tournament held for the benefit of the SOCODEVI foundation. More than $55,000 was raised thanks to the generosity of participants and the contribution of SSQ