Cooperative membership and dairy performance among smallholders in Ethiopia

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Cooperative membership and farmers’ choice of marketing channels – Evidence from apple farmers in Shaanxi and Shandong Provinces, China (2018, background): “The other issue is the impact of cooperatives on agricultural production, the adoption of agricultural technology, and farmers’ welfare (Abebaw and Haile, 2013; Chagwiza et al., 2016).”
Agricultural Cooperatives and Investment in Organic Soil Amendments and Chemical Fertilizer in China (2018, background): “We draw on the existing literature on cooperative membership to identify explanatory variables (e.g., Bernard and Spielman 2009; Marenya and Barrett 2009; Ito et al. 2012; Abebaw and Haile 2013; Chagwiza et al. 2016; Mojo et al. 2017).”
Does cooperative membership increase and accelerate agricultural technology adoption? Empirical evidence from Zambia (2020, background): “Agricultural cooperative membership is a major force of knowledge and technological transfer, due to not only the spillover effects of the collective use of a technology, but also since collective action facilitates innovation and learning by members of the group (Chagwiza et al., 2016).”