A Study on the impact of dairy cooperative union on women farmers

Cooperative proclamation and its subsequent by-laws equally favour both women and men. But in real situation male members are still have the lion share in all levels of cooperatives. Along with this, most of cooperative societies are belongs to male members, the board of directors are dominantly leaded by men in the sampled cooperatives, and the result may be true almost for all cooperatives in Ethiopia. Mostly women have very low participation in important and decisive institutions like cooperatives and as a result they have low access to resources, new technologies, and also information or knowledge.

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A Amsalu tem trabalhado nos últimos 20 anos no sector do desenvolvimento. Trabalha agora para a Agriteam Canada e trabalhou em Oxfam, MEDA, ACDI/VOCA e auto-ajuda em África. Trabalhou no ministério da agricultura e em agências cooperativas em diferentes capacidades. Amsalu tem o BSC em agricultura e MA em desenvolvimento rural.