TY - JOUR
T1 - The Impact of Cooperative Membership on Fish Farm Households’ Income
T2 - The Case of Ghana
AU - Twumasi, Martinson Ankrah
AU - Jiang, Yuansheng
AU - Addai, Bismark
AU - Ding, Zhao
AU - Chandio, Abbas Ali
AU - Fosu, Prince
AU - Asante, Dennis
AU - Siaw, Anthony
AU - Danquah, Frank Osei
AU - Korankye, Bright Asiamah
AU - Ntim-Amo, Gideon
AU - Ansah, Stephen
AU - Agbenyo, Wonder
PY - 2021/2/1
Y1 - 2021/2/1
N2 - The emergence of agricultural cooperatives is extensively viewed as a necessary institutional arrangement that can help farmers in developing countries overcome the constraints that impede them from improving sustainable agricultural production and acquiring new marketing opportunities. Therefore, this study examines the determinants of cooperative membership and its impact on fish farm household income, using data collected from two regions in Ghana. An endogenous switching regression (ESR) model is utilized to address the potential sample selection bias issue. The results show that household heads’ decisions to join cooperatives are affected by their access to credit, off-farm work, education level, and peer influence. Cooperative membership can increase both household and farm income by 28.54% and 34.75%, respectively. Moreover, we show that different groups of households’ cooperative impacts on farm and household income are heterogeneous. Our findings highlight the importance of cooperative patronization and provide implications that can improve households’ welfare.
AB - The emergence of agricultural cooperatives is extensively viewed as a necessary institutional arrangement that can help farmers in developing countries overcome the constraints that impede them from improving sustainable agricultural production and acquiring new marketing opportunities. Therefore, this study examines the determinants of cooperative membership and its impact on fish farm household income, using data collected from two regions in Ghana. An endogenous switching regression (ESR) model is utilized to address the potential sample selection bias issue. The results show that household heads’ decisions to join cooperatives are affected by their access to credit, off-farm work, education level, and peer influence. Cooperative membership can increase both household and farm income by 28.54% and 34.75%, respectively. Moreover, we show that different groups of households’ cooperative impacts on farm and household income are heterogeneous. Our findings highlight the importance of cooperative patronization and provide implications that can improve households’ welfare.
KW - cooperative membership
KW - endogenous switching regression model
KW - fish farms
KW - Ghana
KW - household income
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099801530&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/su13031059
DO - 10.3390/su13031059
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099801530
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 13
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
IS - 3
M1 - 1059
ER -
