What Determines Women's Participation in Collective Action? Evidence from a Western Ugandan Coffee Cooperative
基于乌干达西部咖啡合作社421名女性成员和210名非成员的调查数据，研究了女性参与合作社及其参与强度的决定因素，发现土地控制权、成员时长、推广服务、家庭权力关系和共同土地所有权是关键。
Women smallholders face greater constraints than men in accessing capital and commodity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Collective action has been promoted to remedy those disadvantages. Using survey data of 421 women members and 210 nonmembers of a coffee producer cooperative in Western Uganda, this study investigates the determinants of women's participation in cooperatives and women's intensity of participation. The results highlight the importance of access to and control over land for women to join the cooperative in the first place. Participation intensity is measured through women's participation in collective coffee marketing and share capital contributions. It is found that duration of membership, access to extension services, more equal intrahousehold power relations, and joint land ownership positively influence women's ability to commit to collective action. These findings demonstrate the embeddedness of collective action in gender relations and the positive value of women's active participation for agricultural-marketing cooperatives.