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Chagwiza, Clarietta Muradian, Roldan Ruben, Ruerd Article/Letter to editor Food Policy 59 (2016) ISSN: 0306-9192 Cooperative membership and dairy performance among smallholders in Ethiopia 2016 This study assesses the impact of cooperative membership among dairy producers in Selale, Ethiopia. We selected ten impact indicators: proportion of dairy income to total household income, total dairy income, proportion of crossbreed cows to the total number of cows in the herd (indicator of technological innovation), amount of feed bought (another indicator of technological innovation), milk production, milk productivity, commercialization, price per liter of milk, price per kg of butter and the share of milk production that is processed at the household level. In order to minimize the biases that may arise by simply comparing members and non-members, we employed a propensity score matching technique. The empirical analysis shows that cooperatives are strong in facilitating technological transformations and commercialization but weak in offering better prices. These findings suggest structural trade-offs between different domains of cooperatives' action. Overall, our study concludes that cooperatives can be efficient business institutions to foster rural development and food security. en application/pdf https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/cooperative-membership-and-dairy-performance-among-smallholders-i 10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.01.008 https://edepot.wur.nl/371633 Cooperatives Dairy producers Ethiopia Propensity scores matching Rural poverty Technological innovation Wageningen University & Research