Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya

By Elisabeth Fischer, M. Qaim. 2012

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Cooperative membership and farmers’ choice of marketing channels – Evidence from apple farmers in Shaanxi and Shandong Provinces, China (2018, background): “One issue is the relationship between the cooperative and its members, such as the determinants of cooperative membership (Fischer and Qaim, 2012; La Ferrara, 2002), the relationship between farmers’ preferences and the functions of the cooperative (Cechin et al., 2013; Kalogeras et al., 2009), and…”
Gender, agricultural commercialization, and collective action in Kenya (2012, background): “To further analyze the net impact of group membership on control in the banana enterprise, we exploit the fact that the farmer groups were established and had started their collective marketing activities at different points in time.”
Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, methodology): “Age and education level are often used as proxies for human capital (Fischer and Qaim, 2012).”
Cooperative membership and dairy performance among smallholders in Ethiopia (2016, background): “In addition, similar to what has been reported by Fischer and Qaim (2012) and Abebaw and Haile (2013), our results reveal that older and more educated farmers are more likely to join marketing cooperatives.”
The determinants and economic impacts of membership in coffee farmer cooperatives: recent evidence from rural Ethiopia (2017, background): “…in Kenyawheremembers managed tomeet a food safety standard that made them remain competitive (Narrod et al., 2009), banana farmer organizations in Kenya where selling through cooperative have brought a higher income to members regardless of modest price premium offered (Fischer and Qaim, 2012).”
The impact of cooperatives on agricultural technology adoption: Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2013, methodology): “The choice of the explanatory variables included in Z is guided by previous empirical literature on cooperative membership (e.g., Wollini and Zeller, 2007; Bernard et al., 2008; Bernard and Spielman, 2009; Francesconi and Heerink, 2011; Fischer and Qaim, 2012).”
Limitations of Contract Farming as a Pro-poor Strategy: The Case of Maize Outgrower Schemes in Upper West Ghana (2018, positive): “Propensity score matching (PSM) is often used to evaluate the impacts of a binary treatment variable (for example, Fischer and Qaim 2012; Ruben and Fort 2012).”
Analysis of Adoption and Impacts of Improved Maize Varieties in Eastern Zambia (2015, positive): “Similarly, it was also found that cooperative membership had a strong positive impact on income 11 and on the adoption of fertilizer and improved seed in Kenya and Ethiopia, respectively (Abebaw & Haile, 2013; Alene et al ., 2008; Fischer & Qaim, 2012).”