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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.
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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