Heterogeneous impact of cooperative membership on farmers’ welfare in Rwanda

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Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare (2017, methodology): “While it is increasingly clear that informal cooperatives can affect adoption decisions and welfare levels, it is likely to be heavily contingent on the specific technology, the type of resources required for getting access to it, and the socio-economic characteristics of members (Ito et al., 2012; ”
The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia (2017, methodology): “Our finding is consistent with the work of Verhofstadt and Maertens (2014) who indicated that cooperative membership is not effective for improving welfare for land-poor or near-landless farmers.”