Socio-Economic Assessment of Non-Member Female Headed Households in Multi-Purpose Farmers' Cooperatives: The Case of Machakil Woreda, East Gojjam Administrative Zone, Amhara National Regional State
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2021-01
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Addis Ababa University
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The study was conducted with the main objective of socio-economic assessment of non-member
female-headed households in multi-purpose farmer’s cooperatives in Machakil Woreda, ANRS.
Machakil worda was selected purposively from ANRS East Gojjam Zone. Three multi-purpose
farmer’s cooperatives were selected from Machakil woreda, these are Amanuel Zuria, Embuli,
and Yewula primary multi-purpose farmer’s cooperatives purposively. From the three multipurpose farmer’s cooperatives, 121 respondents were selected using a systematic sampling
method. This means 32, 59, and 30 respondents from each sample multi-purpose farmers’
cooperative proportionally based on nonmember population of each kebele after establishing
sample intervals using the systematic method for the survey, respectively. In addition to these 12
key informants were interviewed and 3 focus group discussions were conducted. The required
data were collected using quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. The collected
raw data were analyzed using the quantitative and qualitative method of data analysis and
descriptive statistical tools were used. In the study socio-economic situation of non-member,
female-headed households in multi-purpose farmer’s cooperatives were identified. The results
show non-member female-headed households live under social situations like heavy workload
and time constraints, economic situations like lack of capital and cultural situations like attitude
towards women were the basic socio-economic situations of nonmembers female headed
households in MPFCs. The socio-economic situations were mainly due to lack of training and
awareness creation to the nonmember female headed households about the benefits of
multipurpose farmers cooperatives. However, MPFCs give equal opportunity to women and men
and the economic and political situation is also supportive of cooperatives development but
participation of female headed households are still very low. Thus, the study examines the socioeconomic situation of nonmembers of female headed households in multipurpose farme’s
cooperaties of machakil woreda
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Multipurpose farmer’s cooperatives; female-headed households; social, economic, and cultural factors