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Determinants of rural people to join cooperatives in Northern Ethiopia

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  • Woldegebrial Zeweld Nugusse
  • Guido Van Huylenbroeck
  • Jeroen Buysse

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Purpose - – There are many farmers in rural Ethiopia, who do not join cooperative societies, despite the different technical and financial supports from the government. This study thus aims to investigate the main factors that inspire rural people to join into the cooperatives. Design/methodology/approach - – The study collected relevant primary data from 400 sample households using a special household survey designed for this study. The study also reviewed different secondary materials. The collected data were analyzed using the two-samplet-test principle and cooperative participation probit model. Findings - – The finding of the binary choice model illustrates that information access, special skill, membership in rural association, frequency of attending a public meeting/workshop, household head education, credit access, training access, number of family members in school, distance to main market, availability of infrastructures, farmland ownership and farmland sizes are the major explanatory variables that have statistically significant (p-value

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  • Woldegebrial Zeweld Nugusse & Guido Van Huylenbroeck & Jeroen Buysse, 2013. "Determinants of rural people to join cooperatives in Northern Ethiopia," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 40(12), pages 1094-1107, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ijsepp:v:40:y:2013:i:12:p:1094-1107
    DOI: 10.1108/IJSE-07-2012-0138
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    1. Solomon Bizuayehu Wassie & Kusakari, Hitoshi & Sumimoto, Masahiro, 2020. "Do Members Commit to Their Cooperatives? An Econometric Analysis of Members' Commitment in Ethiopia," Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics (formerly Japanese Journal of Rural Economics), Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (AESJ), vol. 22.
    2. Carlos Omar Trejo-Pech & Roselia Servín-Juárez & Álvaro Reyes-Duarte, 2023. "What sets cooperative farmers apart from non-cooperative farmers? A transaction cost economics analysis of coffee farmers in Mexico," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 11(1), pages 1-24, December.
    3. Dung, Luu Tien, 2020. "A Multinomial Logit Model Analysis of Farmers’ Participation in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Vietnam," Asian Journal of Applied Economics, Kasetsart University, Center for Applied Economics Research, vol. 27(1).
    4. Dinesh Dhakal & David O’Brien & Peter Mueser, 2021. "Government Policy and Performance of Agricultural Cooperatives: A Case Study in Chitwan District, Nepal," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-20, November.
    5. Wassie, Solomon Bizuayehu & Kusakari, Hitoshi & Sumimoto, Masahiro, 2018. "Community Level Factors Affecting Participation Rate in Agricultural Cooperatives in Ethiopia," Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics (formerly Japanese Journal of Rural Economics), Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (AESJ), vol. 20.
    6. Hintz, Kendisha Soekardjo & Pretzsch, Jürgen, 2023. "Smallholder perceptions of and willingness to participate in Forest Farmers' Organizations: Insights from case studies in Ethiopia and Tanzania," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 149(C).
    7. Chagwiza, Clarietta & Muradian, Roldan & Ruben, Ruerd, 2016. "Cooperative membership and dairy performance among smallholders in Ethiopia," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 165-173.
    8. Henry Mendoza-Crespo & Mauricio Ortiz-Velásquez, 2020. "Importancia y determinantes de la asociación productiva agrícola: el cultivo de name en el caribe colombiano," Revista Sociedad y Economía, Universidad del Valle, CIDSE, issue 41, pages 88-118, July.

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