Agricultural Cooperatives and Rural Livelihoods: Evidence from Ethiopia

By Kindie Getnet, Tsegaye Anullo. 2012

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The determinants and economic impacts of membership in coffee farmer cooperatives: recent evidence from rural Ethiopia (2017, background): “Furthermore, some studies on the Ethiopian coffee cooperatives also addressed socioeconomic benefits that members obtained through ensuring fair trade, creating market linkages, or by improving value chains (Kodama, 2007; Emana, 2009; Getnet and Anullo, 2012).”
The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia (2017, background): “Different studies (e.g. Leistritz 2004; Wanyama et al. 2008; Getnet and Anullo 2012; Ito et al. 2012; Verhofstadt and Maertens 2014) also confirm the role of cooperatives in poverty reduction and in improving the livelihood of smallholder farmers.”
Cooperative membership and dairy performance among smallholders in Ethiopia (2016, methodology): “…has stressed the importance of cooperatives as vehicles to improve commercialization and to alleviate poverty amongst the resource-poor farmers (Getnet and Anullo, 2012), and these organizations have been targeted as key institutions in national plans to foster rural economic development.”