Canada marks International Day of Cooperatives by helping Ethiopian farmers

Canada marks International Day of Cooperatives by helping Ethiopian farmers Canada marked International Day of Cooperatives Saturday by announcing it would lend a hand to farmers in Ethiopia. "Canada recognizes that small landholder farmers are the backbone of economies in many developing countries," Julian Fantino, Minister of International Development, said in a statement Saturday. "That is why we are providing technical support and training cooperatives to offer more business-oriented and gender-sensitive services to their clients in Ethiopia. This initiative will enable as many as 1.7 million smallholder farmers, both women and men, to have higher incomes and be able to adequately feed their families year-round."