The impact of cooperative patronage: the case of National Small Holder Farmers' Association (NASFAM) of Malawi in Kasungu District

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dc.creatorMatchaya, Greenwell C.
dc.creatorPerotin, V.
dc.date2013-06
dc.date2014-06-13T14:47:19Z
dc.date2014-06-13T14:47:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:42:58Z
dc.descriptionThis paper analyses the impact of individual farmers' participation in the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM). Precisely the paper analyses the effect of participation on credit market access, fertilizer use and total incomes of its participants in the Kasungu district of Malawi. NASFAM is a form of producer cooperative with a number of socio-economic functions. Using data on income per capita, fertilizer expenditure and access to credit, this paper tests the hypothesis that participation in NASFAM positively impacted incomes, fertilizer use and credit acquisition. Employing Propensity Score Matching methodology to estimate Average Treatment Effects (ATT) on programme members, this paper finds evidence that participation in NASFAM had a positive effect on all the endogenous variables. Membership enhances household level incomes, fertilizer use and credit acquisition and is hence in line with national goals of poverty reduction, the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) principles, the SADC's Regional Indicative Strategy Development Plan (RISDP) and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Based on these findings and the fact that credit and fertilizer access are still problematic in Malawi's rural areas, it appears that there is great need for NASFAM to expand to areas where it currently does not have activities. Such expansion would ensure food security over a wider range of rural households through improved input access.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/40285
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/163499
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInforma UK Limited
dc.rightsLimited Access
dc.sourceMatchaya, Greenwell Collins; Perotin, V. 2013. The impact of cooperative patronage: the case of National Small Holder Farmers? Association (NASFAM) of Malawi in Kasungu District. Agrekon: Agricultural Economics Research, Policy and Practice in Southern Africa, 52(2):75-103. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03031853.2013.798066
dc.subjectfarmer participation
dc.subjectfarmers associations
dc.subjectcredit
dc.subjectmarket access
dc.subjectcooperatives
dc.subjectfertilizers
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectincome
dc.subjectcosts
dc.subjectagricultural production
dc.subjectmodels
dc.titleThe impact of cooperative patronage: the case of National Small Holder Farmers' Association (NASFAM) of Malawi in Kasungu District
dc.typeJournal Article

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