Cooperativa Integral Minga

Portugal

Cooperativa Integral Minga is a multi-sectoral cooperative in Portugal founded “to reverse a process common to many rural Portuguese towns: population loss, the abandonment of agriculture and the decline of local commerce.” The cooperative does this by promoting agroecological farming, connecting local farmers to consumers, creating affordable and ecological housing, managing a community space and local currency, and encouraging principles and practices of slowing down, consuming less, sourcing local and seasonal food, and reintegrating people with nature. Learn more here (in Portuguese) and here (English), and watch Local Futures’ Voices from the Field Minga episode.