@article{Woldu:210967,
      recid = {210967},
      author = {Woldu, Thomas and Tadesse, Fanaye},
      title = {Women's Participation in Agricultural Cooperatives in  Ethiopia},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1008-2016-80335},
      pages = {32},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Agricultural cooperatives hold much potential to enable  economically weak farmers, in
developing countries, to  increase their collective bargaining power and so enhance  their
incomes. They provide input services and create  market opportunities to their members’
products. In most  developing countries, female farmers are marginalized  from
participating and benefiting from such groups. This  paper uses a rich dataset from a survey
undertaken by the  Ethiopian Economic Association and the International Food  Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI) in eight woredas in seven  regions of Ethiopia with a sample of
1,117 households and  73 agricultural cooperatives. Using descriptive statistics  and
econometric analysis under a critical gender lens, the  paper identifies which cooperative,
household, and  individual level characteristics influence women’s  participation in
agricultural cooperatives. The findings  suggest that a major barrier to women’s access are
gender  biases within households, communities, and cooperatives  themselves that favor
educated male household heads and  land owners over resource-poor women.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/210967},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.210967},
}