22 pages, Smallholder farmers in developing countries encounter multiple barriers in access to inputs and technology, which prevent them from reaping the benefits from market participation. Women farmers face additional constraints due to gender norms that further limit their engagement in productive activities. While collective action has been shown to improve access to markets and economic outcomes for farmers overall, the evidence on the effects of cooperative membership for women smallholders remains limited. We investigate empirically the economic benefits of collective action for women farmers in the honey sector in Ethiopia. Relying on a rich data set on women honey producers, both cooperative members and non-members, we evaluate the effects of belonging to a cooperative on three outcome variables through coarsened exact matching and regression analysis. Our results indicate that cooperative membership significantly increases the market price and the production quantity and, while the average effect on the share of product marketed is statistically insignificant, significant differences emerge for women with given characteristics. These results are shown to be robust to a number of tests that address biases from selection on observables and unobservables. An analysis of the heterogeneous effects of household membership in multiple groups finds that membership of self-help groups or farmer associations amplifies the positive outcomes from belonging to a formal cooperative. Finally, qualitative findings derived from the same communities indicate self-reported improvements in agency and self-esteem among women members, thus reinforcing the importance of the quantitative findings.
Evans, James F. (author / Agricultural Communications, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1973
Published:
USA: Office of Communication, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 23 Document Number: B02438
Notes:
#901, Harold Swanson Collection. Claude W. Gifford Collection. PACER Project., Literature review prepared while author served as a consultant with the Office of Communication. 46 p., This review of literature was conducted as foundation for a national survey for Professional Agricultural Communications Editorial Research, Inc. (PACER), a non-profit organization involving six national agricultural communicator associations.
Jasper, A. William (author / American Agricultural Marketing Association)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1970-12-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 59 Document Number: D10724
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Speech presented at the Midwest Seminar sponsored by the American Poultry and Hatchery Federation, Des Moines, Iowa, December 3, 1970. 12 pages.
Farmer Coopeative Service (author / U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1970-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10766
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Service Report 113, Farmer Cooperative Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 154 pages. Claude W. Gifford Collection.
Gifford, Claude W. (author / Economics Editor, Farm Journal magazine)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
Circa 1970
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 67 Document Number: D10747
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Claude W. Gifford Collection. 39 pages.
Hood, Kenneth (author / American Agricultural Marketing Association)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1968-05-01
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 59 Document Number: D10725
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Speech presented at the American Farm Bureau Federation Institute, Norman, Oklahoma, May 1, 1968. 9 pages., Author describes "15 big marketing challenges" in which Farm Bureau members are involved.
Gifford, Claude W. (author / Economics Editor, Farm Journal magazine)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1963
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10765
Notes:
Find this presentation in Document No. D10766. Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Pages 126-134 in Farmer Cooperative Service (August 1970), Cooperative bargaining: selections from the proceedings of the national conferences of Agricultural Bargaining Cooperatives. Service Report 113. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Claude W. Gifford Collection.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: D10764
Notes:
Find this presentation in Document No. D10766. Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Pages 67-71 in Farmer Cooperative Service (August 1970), Cooperative bargaining: selections from the proceedings of the national conferences of Agricultural Bargaining Cooperatives. Service Report 113. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Claude W. Gifford Collection.
