Member deliveries in collective marketing relationships: evidence from coffee cooperatives in Costa Rica

Wollni, Meike; Fischer, Elisabeth

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“…They find that more specialized and medium-sized banana farmers, and past beneficiaries of group services, were more likely to participate in collective marketing and meetings. In another recent work, Wollni and Fischer (2015) find an inverse relationship between farm size and collective marketing among cooperative coffee farmers in Costa Rica. Also, Mujawamariya, D'Haese, and Speelman (2013) use the proportion of collectively marketed coffee versus side selling to traders as an indicator of member commitment in four Rwandan coffee cooperatives.…”

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“…Conversely, local buyers usually pay promptly in cash (Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth V. Hill 2005). The quantity and marketable share of a member's produce delivered to their cooperative has been commonly applied as a measure of commitment to cooperatives (Mensah et al 2012;Fischer and Qaim 2014;Wollni and Fischer 2015). This study uses the more extreme cases to construct a binary dependent variable of coffee-growing members who sold their coffee to BJC versus those members who decided to avoid participating in collective marketing.…”

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“…In Sub-Saharan Africa in particular, women face greater barriers than men in accessing agricultural markets to sell their produce (at reasonable prices) and to produce to their cooperative but instead engage in side selling to local traders due to temporal cash constraints, price variations, as well as unequal intrahousehold gender relations (Baluku, Mayoux, and Reemer 2009) Wollni and Elisabeth Fischer 2015). However, although gender is held as a key determinant of people's ability to participate in collective action, a deeper understanding of the determinants of women's participation in and within cooperatives is still missing.…”

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What Determines Women's Participation in Collective Action? Evidence from a Western Ugandan Coffee Cooperative

Selhausen

2015

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Women smallholders face greater constraints than men in accessing capital and commodity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Collective action has been promoted to remedy those disadvantages. Using survey data of 421 women members and 210 nonmembers of a coffee producer cooperative in Western Uganda, this study investigates the determinants of women's participation in cooperatives and women's intensity of participation. The results highlight the importance of access to and control over land for women to join the cooperative in the first place. Participation intensity is measured through women's participation in collective coffee marketing and share capital contributions. It is found that duration of membership, access to extension services, more equal intrahousehold power relations, and joint land ownership positively influence women's ability to commit to collective action. These findings demonstrate the embeddedness of collective action in gender relations and the positive value of women's active participation for agricultural-marketing cooperatives.

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Selhausen

2015

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“…However, even farmers who do sell to the co-operative supply only a limited share of their marketable surplus and are largely involved in side-selling to the private market (Wollni & Fischer, 2015;Mujawamariya, D'Haese, & Speelman, 2013). Many explain their actions by disclosing that the co-operative did not buy when the farmer needed the money (self-reported argument).…”

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Social Desirability, Opportunism and Actual Support for Farmers’ Market Organisations in Ethiopia

Eriksen

Lutz

Tadesse³

2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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One of the striking issues in the literature on farmers' market organisations (FMOs) is that farmers generally report quite positive opinions regarding the services of their FMO, while, at the same time, actual sales reveal a much more reserved attitude. We argue that farmers may feel social and/or opportunistic pressure to express positive opinions concerning the FMO, to donors and policy-makers, which are not necessarily in line with their actions. This article proposes a list experiment method to control for this bias. The method shows that especially farmers who express strong support for the FMO seriously hesitate to speak freely.

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“…Wollni and Fischer (2014) examine the relationship between members' landholdings and outside sales in Costa Rican coffee cooperatives. They find that the relationship follows an inverted U-shape: the smallest-and largest-scale growers engage in the fewest outside sales, and the growers of intermediate scale engage in the most.…”

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Coffee, cooperatives, and choba-choba: the role of non-market labor networks in building equitable supply chains

Enelow¹

2015

Eutopía

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Resumen extendido La certificación de Comercio Justo (Fairtrade) se presenta como una importante intervención de mercado en el comercio internacional de bienes de consumo, a través del cual los pequeños productores agrícolas y artesanales, en regiones en vías de desarrollo, pueden obtener mejores precios de venta y conseguir acceso al crédito y la asistencia técnica. Las cooperativas, o asociaciones de productores, son un modo de organización clave a través del cual la mayoría de sistemas de certificación de comercio justo ofrecen sus beneficios. Sin embargo, muchas cooperativas, incluso aquellas que ofrecen primas de comercio justo, se debilitan por el persistente y significativo número de ventas externas hechas por sus mismos miembros a comerciantes intermediarios privados que trabajan para compañías que pertenecen a inversionistas. Debido a las ventas externas, las cooperativas son a menudo incapaces de garantizar un suministro confiable de café de sus miembros. Este artículo es el primero en establecer una conexión explícita entre las prácticas comerciales de los miembros de las cooperativas y las prácticas de trabajo agrícola que los miembros usan en el campo. El estudio econométrico presentado en el presente trabajo señala que los productores que utilizan proporcionalmente más métodos no comerciales de trabajo en sus campos, que incluye una tradición indígena de intercambio laboral llamada choba-choba, participan proporcionalmente en menos ventas externas.El artículo examina el problema de ventas externas en la cooperativa de café Oro Verde de la región Lamas al norte de Perú, que abarca tanto indígenas de Lamas (Lamista) como comunidades mestizas. Las ventas externas han sido un problema para Oro Verde en el pasado, en el que un 46% de todo el café producido por los miembros se vendía a los intermediarios privados durante 2007. Los miembros de la cooperativa Oro Verde hacen uso de tres prácticas laborales: el trabajo conjunto basado en relaciones familiares, la mano de obra contratada y la costumbre indígena de intercambio laboral y por turnos conocida como choba-choba. La presencia de la costumbre choba-choba como reserva de trabajo no comercial compensa las imperfecciones en los mercados de trabajo y de crédito. 40Esto mediante la reducción de necesidades de dinero en efectivo de los productores y la satisfacción de las alzas repentinas de demanda de trabajo. El pago en especie por el trabajo hecho también conlleva un menor costo de oportunidad cuando hay un involuntario desempleo local.La hipótesis central de este estudio es que el acceso a la práctica choba-choba facilita patrocinio a la cooperativa y reduce las ventas externas. Los resultados de unas variables instrumentales (IV) del modelo probit confirman esta hipótesis, demostrando que los miembros de las cooperativas de café que hacen un uso más intenso del choba-choba, así como del trabajo en familia, participan en menos ventas externas y más ventas a través de la cooperativa en proporción a su cosecha total. Estos resultados indican que las pr...

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Member deliveries in collective marketing relationships: evidence from coffee cooperatives in Costa Rica

Cited by 46 publications

References 30 publications

What Determines Women's Participation in Collective Action? Evidence from a Western Ugandan Coffee Cooperative

What Determines Women's Participation in Collective Action? Evidence from a Western Ugandan Coffee Cooperative

Social Desirability, Opportunism and Actual Support for Farmers’ Market Organisations in Ethiopia

Coffee, cooperatives, and choba-choba: the role of non-market labor networks in building equitable supply chains

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