Social desirability, opportunism and actual support for farmers’ market organisations in Ethiopia
One of the striking issues in the literature on farmers’ market organisations (FMOs) is that farmers generally report quite positive opinions regarding the services of their FMO, while, at the same time, actual sales reveal a much more reserved attitude. We argue that farmers may feel social and/or...
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| author | Eriksen, Steffen Lutz, Clemens Tadesse, Getaw |
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| description | One of the striking issues in the literature on farmers’ market organisations (FMOs) is that farmers generally report quite positive opinions regarding the services of their FMO, while, at the same time, actual sales reveal a much more reserved attitude. We argue that farmers may feel social and/or opportunistic pressure to express positive opinions concerning the FMO, to donors and policy-makers, which are not necessarily in line with their actions. This article proposes a list experiment method to control for this bias. The method shows that especially farmers who express strong support for the FMO seriously hesitate to speak freely. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1457502024-10-25T07:57:45Z Social desirability, opportunism and actual support for farmers’ market organisations in Ethiopia Eriksen, Steffen Lutz, Clemens Tadesse, Getaw value chains social behaviour farmers associations farmers farmers organizations smallholders cooperatives One of the striking issues in the literature on farmers’ market organisations (FMOs) is that farmers generally report quite positive opinions regarding the services of their FMO, while, at the same time, actual sales reveal a much more reserved attitude. We argue that farmers may feel social and/or opportunistic pressure to express positive opinions concerning the FMO, to donors and policy-makers, which are not necessarily in line with their actions. This article proposes a list experiment method to control for this bias. The method shows that especially farmers who express strong support for the FMO seriously hesitate to speak freely. 2018-03-01 2024-06-21T09:04:59Z 2024-06-21T09:04:59Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145750 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Eriksen, Steffen; Lutz, Clemens; and Tadesse, Getaw. 2018. Social desirability, opportunism and actual support for farmers’ market organisations in Ethiopia. Journal of Development Studies 54(2): 343-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1299138 |
| spellingShingle | value chains social behaviour farmers associations farmers farmers organizations smallholders cooperatives Eriksen, Steffen Lutz, Clemens Tadesse, Getaw Social desirability, opportunism and actual support for farmers’ market organisations in Ethiopia |
| title | Social desirability, opportunism and actual support for farmers’ market organisations in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Social desirability, opportunism and actual support for farmers’ market organisations in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Social desirability, opportunism and actual support for farmers’ market organisations in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social desirability, opportunism and actual support for farmers’ market organisations in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Social desirability, opportunism and actual support for farmers’ market organisations in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | social desirability opportunism and actual support for farmers market organisations in ethiopia |
| topic | value chains social behaviour farmers associations farmers farmers organizations smallholders cooperatives |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145750 |
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