
Carla Dohmwirth successfully defended her PhD thesis on women’s empowerment in Indian dairy cooperatives
Congratulations to Carla Dohmwirth who has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled „Women, collective action and empowerment – An economic approach“. Her research project focused on the analysis of women’s empowerment in collective action in agriculture.

Visiting scholar from the Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU)
Until end of May 2020, Samuel Ahado is visiting scholar at our institute! Samuel is a Ghanaian by birth and currently a Ph.D. student and member of the Cooperative Research Group at the Faculty of Tropical Agri-Sciences (FTA) of the Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU).

CooPerformance: New Erasmus project aims to improve digital education on cooperatives in the agri-food value chain
The three-year project (November 2019- April 2022), funded by the European Commission, aims to design and develop a European curricula for higher education focusing on cooperative business models in the agriculture sector necessary to educate students for further work as leaders, managers, staff, consultants, or members of co-operative enterprises in the agriculture sector.