Estimating effects of cooperative membership on farmers’ safe production behaviors: Evidence from pig sector in China

Ji, Chen; Deininger, Klaus; Wang, Haitao; Ye, Chunhui

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.01.007

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“…From the results, we deduced that the adoption of farmer-led irrigation creates a significant positive effect on smallholder farmers' per capita net crop income. This is consistent with several studies on the impacts of agricultural technologies on productivity and welfare [46][47][48][49][50][51]. The three matching methods displayed consistent results; thus, the adopters had a higher per capita net crop income compared to the matched nonadopters.…”

Section: Estimating the Effects Of Farmer-led Irrigation On Smallholdsupporting

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Farmer-Led Irrigation and Its Impacts on Smallholder Farmers’ Crop Income: Evidence from Southern Tanzania

Osewe

Liu

Njagi

2020

IJERPH

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Irrigation projects in sub-Saharan Africa are mostly unsustainable because of lack of maintenance by their users or government planners. By contrast, evidence shows that the smallholder farmers are developing and expanding the irrigated land, using their initiatives. Farmer-led irrigation, a revolutionary agricultural intensification approach, is already in progress with the magnitude to significantly transform the living standards of smallholder farmers. However, a rigorous assessment of its impact on household welfare to ascertain this is lacking. This paper bridges this gap by assessing factors influencing the adoption of this particular approach as well as its effects on the farmers’ per capita net crop income. Our data set consists of 608 smallholder farmers in Southern Tanzania and used propensity score matching to estimate the effects of adoption on the per capita net crop income. Our results indicate that the uptake of farmer-led irrigation practices is influenced by drought experience, water user group membership, farmer organization membership, and government extension, as well as the sex of the household head. Further, there was a positive and significant effect on the adopters’ per capita net crop income, thus encouraging the need to promote farmer-led irrigation as a complement to externally promoted innovations in achieving sustainable food security. This study, therefore, recommends that the government should support the farmers’ initiative by improving roads, removing market barriers, and helping farmers who have not yet taken up the initiative. Also, the government should enact regulations to make sure farmer-led irrigation initiatives do not harm the eco-environment such as protecting domestic water users. Finally, the government should leverage microservices to the farmers such as promoting affordable and appropriate credit facilities. It is necessary to continue pursuing this vein of research to gain information regarding the definite impact of the farmer-led irrigation on household welfare.

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Section: Estimating the Effects Of Farmer-led Irrigation On Smallholdsupporting

confidence: 90%

Farmer-Led Irrigation and Its Impacts on Smallholder Farmers’ Crop Income: Evidence from Southern Tanzania

Osewe

Liu

Njagi

2020

IJERPH

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“…Agricultural cooperatives play an important role in improving agricultural sustainability in China through helping farmers to adopt eco-friendly technologies and access environmentally friendly inputs with lower price, promoting organic agricultural production and enhancing sustainable use of material inputs and natural resources [ 2 ]. Our results suggest that the agricultural cooperatives have led to improvement in overall environmental and economic performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Comparative analysis on environmental and economic performance of agricultural cooperatives and smallholder farmers: The case of grape production in Hebei, China

Deng

Chen

Zhao³

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PLoS ONE

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Agricultural modernization and intensification have been regarded as a significant way to support agricultural development and improve farm income in China. Agricultural cooperatives have played an important role in promoting the modernization and intensification of Chinese agricultural sector. Given the increasing concerns about environmental harm, however, it still remains unclear whether and the extent to which agricultural cooperatives contributes to reducing environmental impacts of agricultural production. Hence, this study performed an environmental evaluation using life cycle assessment for three different organization forms of grape production in Changli County, Hebei Province, China: smallholder farmers, farmer-owned cooperatives and investor-owned firm-led cooperatives. Then the results of life cycle assessment were monetarized and cost benefit analysis was used to evaluate the economic performance of these three organization forms of grape production. The results demonstrate that investor-owned firm-led cooperatives present an overall improvement in environmental and economic performance with the lowest weighted environmental index (integrating all impact categories into a single score), the highest net profit and the highest total net benefit. The results also show a difference in potential improvement in environmental impacts and economic returns between cooperatives and smallholder farmers. Additionally, the production and application of organic and chemical fertilizer and pesticide have been identified as major contributors to total environmental damage.

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“…While results do indicate a positive coefficient on the amount of fertilizer used and value of agricultural inputs across columns (5), (7) and (8) of Table , the result is not statistically significant and therefore provides no conclusive evidence that cooperative service increased the use of high‐value inputs net of other farm and demographic characteristics. These results contrast with recent literature (e.g., Ji et al ., ) which show significant impacts of cooperative membership on input use. One possible explanation is that grower households are resistant to adopting new agricultural practices or new agricultural inputs.…”

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The effects of agricultural cooperatives on smallholder livelihoods and agricultural performance in Cambodia

Ofori

Sampson

Vipham

2019

Natural Resources Forum

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Cooperatives are increasingly advocated as a means to improve incomes, livelihoods and the sustainability of smallholder farmers. This study analyzes the impact of commercial vegetable cooperative membership on smallholder agricultural performance in Cambodia. Institutional heterogeneities are considered across cooperatives and various econometric techniques are used to control for potential selection bias. The impacts of horticulture on agricultural outcomes are also analyzed. The results indicate that membership of commercial vegetable cooperatives has so far had no effect on agricultural incomes or the value or amounts of agricultural inputs. However, results indicate that membership has affected technology choice, access to credit services and information transmission through technological training. Additionally, there is evidence that horticulture, as a component of overall agricultural diversification, can augment farm income. The results suggest that much of the benefit of cooperative membership stems from the cooperative's provision of services, which might not be easily inferred from measures of member incomes.

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Estimating effects of cooperative membership on farmers’ safe production behaviors: Evidence from pig sector in China

Cited by 95 publications

References 34 publications

Farmer-Led Irrigation and Its Impacts on Smallholder Farmers’ Crop Income: Evidence from Southern Tanzania

Farmer-Led Irrigation and Its Impacts on Smallholder Farmers’ Crop Income: Evidence from Southern Tanzania

Comparative analysis on environmental and economic performance of agricultural cooperatives and smallholder farmers: The case of grape production in Hebei, China

The effects of agricultural cooperatives on smallholder livelihoods and agricultural performance in Cambodia

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