The Role of Cooperatives in Promoting Climate‐Smart Agriculture: Panel Evidence From Ethiopia
利用埃塞俄比亚农户面板数据，研究发现合作社成员身份与农户采用更多气候适应措施正相关，且对非成员有溢出效应，为政策制定者通过合作社推广气候智慧型农业提供了依据。
ABSTRACT Climate change threatens the livelihood of millions of smallholder farmers in Sub‐Saharan Africa and elsewhere. This paper investigates whether cooperatives could promote climate‐smart agriculture among their members and, through spillover effects on nonmembers in their villages, among their communities at large. For this purpose, we use panel data collected among smallholder farm households in Ethiopia. We find that (i) cooperative membership is positively associated with the number of adaptation practices adopted by farm households; (ii) this association increases with the number of cooperatives of which farm households are members; and (iii) nonmembers in villages with cooperatives adopt more adaptation practices than farm households in villages without cooperatives, although results are statistically significant only for certain types of cooperatives. These results suggest that considering different levels at which climate change adaptation occurs merits greater attention among researchers and policymakers. For example, enhancing the institutional capacity of and creating partnerships with cooperatives could facilitate the implementation of climate change adaptation policies and strategies, including at the farm level.