The impact of cooperatives on agricultural technology adoption: Empirical evidence from Ethiopia

Abebaw, Degnet; Haile, Mekbib G.

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.10.003

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“…This, in turn, leads to inequality in service provision, typically to the poor. Membership in farmers' organization has positive significance for the probability of participation in the extension program as expected and consistent with past findings (Benin et al, 2011;Abebaw and Haile, 2013).…”

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confidence: 91%

“…In addition, we employed a placebo regression (Imbens and Wooldridge, 2009) as a robustness check of the impact estimates to unobserved selection bias. This approach was used by (Abebaw and Haile, 2013;Cunguara and Moder, 2011) to test unobserved bias. The overlap assumption implies that the conditional distributions of the covariates of AE participants overlap completely with nonparticipants (Dehejia and Wahba, 2002;Imbens and Wooldridge, 2009).…”

Section: Self-selection In To Agricultural Extension Program Participmentioning

confidence: 99%

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THE EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE ON THE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF TEFF (<i>ERAGROSTISTEF</i>) PRODUCERS

Elias

Nohmi

Yasunobu

et al. 2014

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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Teff (Eragrostistef) is a major staple food crop in Ethiopia, but smallholder teff production is characterized by persistently low average yield. A major government effort aimed at raising the productivity and competitiveness of smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia involved reforming and implementing agricultural extension service known as Participatory Demonstration and Training Extension System (PADETES). Therefore, this study investigates the effect of agricultural extension service and other factors on the Technical Efficiency (TE) of teff producers in northern Ethiopia. Using cross sectional data we compare TE level of teff producers who are participants and non-participants of Agricultural Extension (AE) program. We address self-selection in to AE program participation using propensity score matching method. Translog stochastic frontier production function is used for TE analysis. The empirical results reveal that, AE program participants' and non-participants' farms have an average TE of 72 and 71% respectively. Both groups of farms have considerable overall technical inefficiencies, suggesting the existence of immense potentials for enhancing production through more efficient use of available technology and resources. Determinants of TE are explained significantly by livestock ownership, credit and improved seed. Based on the results, we derive policy recommendations to improve farmers' teff production performance. These policy measures include the provision of extension services related to technical skill and farm management capacity of the farmers, demand driven livestock extension service, greater access to credit and increasing the availability, quality and adoption of improved seed.

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Section: Self-selection In To Agricultural Extension Program Participmentioning

confidence: 99%

THE EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE ON THE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF TEFF (<i>ERAGROSTISTEF</i>) PRODUCERS

Elias

Nohmi

Yasunobu

et al. 2014

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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“…African women's unequal access to productive resources often limits their opportunities to participate in collective action, leading to male-dominated cooperatives (Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Margreet Zwarteveen 1998;Chris Penrose-Buckley 2007;Degnet Abebaw and Megbib G. Haile 2013). One important aspect of smallholder farmers' membership in cooperatives is land ownership.…”

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

Selhausen

2015

Feminist Economics

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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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“…For example, Abebaw and Haile (2013) show that these organisations have a positive impact on farmers input use and the adoption of agricultural technologies, while Bernard, Tafesse, and Gabre-Madhin (2008b) conclude that co-operatives obtain higher prices for their members. However, to date the overall performance of these organisations in Ethiopia and many other developing countries are quite disappointing (Bernard, Spielman, Tafesse, & Gabre-Madhin, 2010;Fischer & Qaim, 2012;Markelova, Meinzen-Dick, Hellin, & Dohrn, 2009;Poulton, Dorward, & Kydd, 2010).…”

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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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The impact of cooperatives on agricultural technology adoption: Empirical evidence from Ethiopia

Cited by 480 publications

References 30 publications

THE EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE ON THE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF TEFF (<i>ERAGROSTISTEF</i>) PRODUCERS

THE EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE ON THE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF TEFF (<i>ERAGROSTISTEF</i>) PRODUCERS

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

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