The wide array of services provided by agricultural cooperatives for their members is often not considered in academic studies. Addressing this gap in the literature, our paper explores the wide array of services provided by agricultural cooperatives and how these extend beyond those they were initially intended to provide. We study the extent and characteristics of service portfolios from 511 agricultural cooperatives in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Results from two‐limit Tobit models confirm that government and NGO‐initiated cooperatives have a wide service portfolio compared to member‐initiated cooperatives. In many of the studied cooperatives, the services they provide and their portfolios are more diverse than expected. Cooperatives seem to go beyond their focal areas of intervention. Also, those cooperatives that are more outward‐oriented and where the chair has contact with other cooperatives or businesses, have a wider service portfolio. These results may help to explain the mixed findings on the impact of cooperative membership.

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超越焦点：探索农业合作社提供服务的可变性

农业合作社为其成员提供的各种服务通常在学术研究中没有考虑。为了弥补文献中的这一空白，我们的论文探讨了农业合作社提供的各种服务，以及这些服务如何扩展到它们最初打算提供的服务之外。我们研究了埃塞俄比亚提格雷地区511家农业合作社的服务组合的范围和特征。来自两个限制的Tobit模型的结果证实，与成员发起的合作社相比，政府和NGO发起的合作社拥有广泛的服务组合。在许多研究过的合作社中，他们提供的服务和投资组合比预期的要多样化。合作社似乎超出了其干预的重点领域。还，那些外向型的合作社，而主席与其他合作社或企业有联系的合作社，则具有更广泛的服务组合。这些结果可能有助于解释关于合作社成员身份影响的混合结果。