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Land Tenure Security: State-peasant relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia (Eastern Africa Series, 44) by Svein Ege; Harald Aspen; Kjell J Havnevik; Yigremew Adal is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An alternative analysis of the impact of the 1975 land reforms on peasant land rights, rural inequality and development in Ethiopia's Amhara highlands; essential reading for those engaged in research and policymaking in peasant studies, land and agriculture. The land issue, as in other parts of Africa, dominates life in Ethiopia, where agriculture accounts for 80 per cent of employment, but despite land reform, progress seems out of reach for many. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in northern Ethiopia from the 1990s onwards, this is a welcome and overdue local analysis of the impact of the land tenure system in the Amhara highlands. Complementing the macro research of international economists, the authors take a detailed look at the impact of the 1975 land reforms for those in North Shäwa, Wälo and Gojam regions, where the peasantry depend upon the land not only for their homes, but their livelihoods. The land tenure systemis commonly thought to have been settled by land certification following the reforms, but the contributors reveal that rather than this leading to periodic redistribution and tenure insecurity, farmers here had 'conditional' private ownership within th

Who reads Land Tenure Security: State-peasant relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia (Eastern Africa Series, 44)?

Author

Svein Ege; Harald Aspen; Kjell J Havnevik; Yigremew Adal

Publisher

James Currey

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847012241

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Anthropology, Science