Do coffee cooperatives benefit farmers ? An exploration of heterogeneous impact of coffee cooperative membership in Southwest Ethiopia

Titre Do coffee cooperatives benefit farmers ? An exploration of heterogeneous impact of coffee cooperative membership in Southwest Ethiopia
Titre traduit Les coopératives de café bénéficient-elles aux producteurs ? Étude de l'impact hétérogène de l'adhésion à une coopérative de café dans le Sud-Ouest de l'Éthiopie
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Auteur SHUMETA, Zekarias ; D'HAESE, Marijke
Titre du périodique International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
Date 2016
Pagination ou Durée d'écoute 30 p.
Notes Article scientifique
Résumé Abstract: "Smallholder farmers’ participation in agricultural cooperatives is often promoted as a promising strategy forovercoming market imperfections and to increase farmers’ productivity and income. In recognition of thispotential, in recent years, Ethiopia has shown renewed interest in promoting cooperatives. However, there is lack of empirical evidence of the impact that cooperatives have on farmers’ performance in Ethiopia. Using a matching technique, we evaluate the impact of coffee cooperatives on the performance of their memberhouseholds in terms of income and coffee production. We use data from coffee farmers in south-west Ethiopia. The overall results suggest that members of cooperatives are not faring much better than non-members. The treatment effects we measured were not statistically significant from zero. Yet, the aggregate figures mask differences between cooperatives and amongst individual cooperative members. Average treatment effects on members differ between cooperatives, in general older members, those who have benefitted from more education and those with larger coffee plantations seem to benefit more from membership. Our analysis sheds light on the heterogeneity in the impact that membership of a cooperative can have: this differs by cooperative and by members within cooperatives, a finding that has important policy implications."

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