Agroindustrialization through institutional innovation: transactions costs, cooperatives and milk-market development in the Ethiopian highlands

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dc.creatorHolloway, Garth
dc.creatorNicholson, Charles F.
dc.creatorDelgado, Christopher L.
dc.creatorStaal, Steven
dc.creatorEhui, Simeon
dc.date1999
dc.date2024-11-21T09:54:33Z
dc.date2024-11-21T09:54:33Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:39:52Z
dc.descriptionSome small-holders are able to generate reliable and substantial income flows through small-scale dairy production for the local market; for others, a set of unique transactions costs hinders participation. Cooperative selling institutions are potential catalysts for mitigating these costs, stimulating entry into the market, and precipitating growth in rural communities. Trends in cooperative organization in East-African dairy are evaluated. Empirical work focuses on alternative techniques for effecting participation among a representative sample of peri-urban milk producers in the Ethiopian highlands. The techniques considered are a modern production practice (cross-bred cow use), a traditional production practice (indigenous-cow use), three intellectual-capital-forming variables (experience, education, extension), and the provision of infrastructure (as measured by time to transport milk to market). A Tobit analysis of marketable surplus generates precise estimates of non-participants’ ‘distances’ to market and their reservation levels of the covariates—measures of the inputs necessary to sustain and enhance the market. Policy implications focus on the availability of cross-bred stock and the level of market infrastructure, both of which have marked effects on participation, the velocity of transactions in the local community and, inevitably, the social returns to agroindustrialization.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/161269
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/111020
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceHolloway, Garth; Nicholson, Charles F.; Delgado, Christopher L.; Staal, Steven; Ehui, Simeon. 1999. Agroindustrialization through institutional innovation;transactions costs, cooperatives and milk-market development in the Ethiopian highlands. MTID Discussion Paper 35. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161269
dc.subjectdairy farming
dc.subjectcollective farms
dc.titleAgroindustrialization through institutional innovation: transactions costs, cooperatives and milk-market development in the Ethiopian highlands
dc.typeWorking Paper

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