Impact of cooperatives on smallholders' commercialization behavior: evidence from Ethiopia

By Tanguy Bernard, A. Taffesse, E. Gabre-Madhin. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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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).”
Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, result): “An explanation from earlier findings is that cooperatives in Ethiopia are largely ineffective in improving smallholder commercialization8 (Bernard et al., 2008; Ruben and Heras, 2012).”
Improving market access and agricultural productivity growth in Africa: what role for producer organizations and collective action institutions? (2011, background): “On the other hand, Bernard et al. (2008) employed a propensity score matching model to demonstrate that cooperative members in Ethiopia received between 7.2% and 8.9% higher prices for their produce than their nonmember counterparts.”
Cooperative membership and dairy performance among smallholders in Ethiopia (2016, methodology): “This technique has been applied also by Francesconi (2009), Getnet and Anullo (2012) and Bernard et al. (2008a) for evaluating the impact of cooperative membership among Ethiopian farmers.”
Heterogeneous impact of cooperative membership on farmers’ welfare in Rwanda (2015, methodology): “Bernard et al. (2008) find that cooperative membership leads to a higher degree of commercialization for cereal farmers in Ethiopia; but the effect is larger for the largest farms and even negative for very small farms.”
Agricultural Technology Adoption, Seed Access Constraints and Commercialization in Ethiopia (2011, background): “Moreover, there is lack of empirical evidence, especially for legumes in Africa, on the linkage between technology adoption, productivity gain and market participation (Balagtas et al., 2007; Bellemare and Barrett, 2006; Bernard et al., 2008; Edmeades, 2006; Gebremedhin et al., 2009).”
Agricultural Cooperatives and Investment in Organic Soil Amendments and Chemical Fertilizer in China (2018, background): “With regards to physical assets, transportation costs and household wealth, previous studies have shown that ownership of radio, ox, cattle, and farm equipment exerts positive impacts on the probability of joining a cooperative (Bernard et al. 2008; Abebaw and Haile 2013).”
Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya (2012, background): “One exception is Bernard et al. (2008), who find that smallholder grain marketing cooperatives in Ethiopia achieve higher prices, even though this has no significant effect on the overall level of commercialization.”
The determinants and economic impacts of membership in coffee farmer cooperatives: recent evidence from rural Ethiopia (2017, background): “…generally considered as organizations playing significant socioeconomic roles, among others, by reducing transaction costs and improving the bargaining power of individuals in all sectors including agriculture (Staatz, 1987; Bonin et al., 1993; Bernard et al., 2008; Francesconi and Ruben, 2012).”
The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia (2017, methodology): “Among the personal characteristics of the household head, previous studies (such as Bernard et al. 2008; Bernard and Spielman 2009) indicated that the age of the household head has a positive and significant relationship with cooperative membership while the works of Ito et al. 2012; Abebaw and…”