Does cooperative membership increase and accelerate agricultural technology adoption? Empirical evidence from Zambia

Manda, Julius; Khonje, Makaiko G.; Alene, Arega D.; Tufa, Adane; Abdoulaye, Tahirou; Mutenje, Munyaradzi; Setimela, P.S.; Manyong, Víctor M.

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120160

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“…The estimates of Equation ( 1) by 2SRI approach revealed that education level and farming experience of the farm head, fertilizing based on soil testing, and agri-products quality certification all had positive impacts on farmers' decision to join an agricultural cooperative, whilst the farm size and the proportion of family labor force had a negative effect. These findings are largely consistent with the existing literature on agricultural cooperatives (e.g., Jitmun et al 2020;Ma and Abdulai 2019;Manda et al 2020;Zhang et al 2020). All of the above variables were statistically significant.…”

Section: Impact Of Cooperative Membershipsupporting

confidence: 91%

Does agricultural cooperative membership help reduce the overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides? Evidence from rural China

Liu

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides (CFPs) has negatively impacted the environment and human health. It is an urgent issue that should be addressed. In this study, we investigate whether agricultural cooperatives can serve as an institutional arrangement that helps reduce the consumption of CFPs, using the data of 2012 family farms from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China. Various approaches, including instrumental variable based two-stage residual inclusion approach (2SRI), endogenous switching probit (ESP) model, and endogenous switching regression (ESR) model, are utilized to help address the endogeneity issues of the cooperative membership variable. The results show that agricultural cooperative membership significantly increases the probability of reducing fertilizers and pesticides of the family farms and improves net return per yuan CFPs. Our findings highlight the importance of promoting the development of agricultural cooperatives to support green agricultural production in China.

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Section: Impact Of Cooperative Membershipsupporting

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Does agricultural cooperative membership help reduce the overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides? Evidence from rural China

Liu

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…This has mostly been discussed for developing countries. A large number of empirical studies in such countries have been devoted to the impact of farmers’ membership of a cooperative on the farms’ productivity (Wossen et al ., 2017; Ma et al ., 2018a; Ortega et al ., 2019; Manda et al ., 2020; Zhang et al ., 2020) or on farmers’ incomes (Verhofstadt and Maertens, 2014; Ma and Abdulai, 2016; Mojo et al ., 2017; Hoken and Su, 2018; Kumar et al ., 2018; 2019; Ofori et al ., 2019). These studies emphasize the positive role of joining a cooperative on members’ economic sustainability.…”

Section: Empirical Studies: Can Cooperatives Influence Farm Sustainability?mentioning

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Agricultural Cooperatives and Farm Sustainability – A Literature Review

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Duvaleix-Tréguer

Latruffe

2021

Journal of Economic Surveys

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We present a literature review of the role played by agricultural cooperatives in influencing farm sustainability. We first focus on the theoretical literature to highlight the various economic behaviours of cooperatives. Then we investigate all three dimensions of sustainability in developing and developed countries. We aim at linking the empirical findings to the theoretical understanding of cooperatives, in particular members’ heterogeneity. This paper shows that cooperatives play a non‐negligible role in farm economic sustainability and in the adoption of environmentally friendly practices, suggesting that both public policies and private initiatives in cooperatives may be complementary. As regards social sustainability, there are only a few studies existing on the role of agricultural cooperatives. The trade‐off between economic and environmental sustainability in cooperatives would need to be further investigated.

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“…A growing number of studies have investigated the impacts of cooperative membership for farmers. Agricultural cooperatives can significantly contribute to members' technology adoption in developing countries [10,17,42,43], enhance market power by harnessing the benefits of the economies of scale gained from collective commercialization or the through the creation of new vertical marketing links [6,[44][45][46][47], improve crop yields and farm revenue [5,23,48,49], elevate farm efficiency and financial performance [15,[50][51][52], and promote farmers' safe production [53,54].…”

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Poverty Reduction Effect of New-Type Agricultural Cooperatives: An Empirical Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching and Endogenous Switching Regression Models

Qiong

et al. 2021

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Agricultural cooperatives have been found to effectively alleviate poverty in developing countries because of their specific socioeconomic functions that allow poor households to overcome marketing and production constraints. However, cooperative evaluations are inevitably influenced by other poverty alleviation measures and rarely consider the characteristics of specific ethnic groups. Using cross-sectional surveys in Southwest China and employing propensity score matching (PSM) and endogenous switching regression (ESR) models, this paper analyzed the participation of poor households in New-type Agricultural Cooperatives (NACs) in ethnic areas and assessed the income impacts of NAC membership by eliminating unobserved biases and group heterogeneity. This study detected heterogeneous policy perceptions and behavioral differences between the member and nonmember groups, and the PSM and ESR model results indicated that, overall, participation in the NACs had a positive effect on household income. The ESR model was found to be more plausible as it was able to reveal the significant income gaps under a counterfactual inference framework. Local policymakers need to focus on the policy perception and behavioral and earning capability differences between groups and increase the balanced policy implementation.

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Does cooperative membership increase and accelerate agricultural technology adoption? Empirical evidence from Zambia

Cited by 115 publications

References 52 publications

Does agricultural cooperative membership help reduce the overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides? Evidence from rural China

Does agricultural cooperative membership help reduce the overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides? Evidence from rural China

Agricultural Cooperatives and Farm Sustainability – A Literature Review

Poverty Reduction Effect of New-Type Agricultural Cooperatives: An Empirical Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching and Endogenous Switching Regression Models

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