Land tenure security : state-peasant relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia
edited by Svein Ege
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
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| Omfang | xviii, 186 sider : 1 kart, 1 diagram
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| Opplysninger | Introduction / Svein Ege -- Peasant land tenure : a critical review / Svein Ege -- The Dersha system : rethinking land tenure under the Därg / Svein Ege -- Land tenure in Gojam under the Därg / Yigremew Adal and Svein Ege -- Land tenure in Baba Säat, North Wälo / Harald Aspen -- Rich and poor : land and wealth in Mäqét, North Wälo /Harald Aspen -- Rural land and urban aspirations : future orientation in a time of change / Harald Aspen -- An unstable land tenure system / Svein Ege -- Conclusion / Harald Aspen -- Postface / Kjell Havnevik. - In rural economies such as Ethiopia the land question is critical for development, yet despite progress, tenure security for many seems out of reach. Why should this be, and how can agrarian change be effected, alleviating food insecurity and poverty? Drawing from ethnographies from North Shäwa, Wälo and Gojam, and countering the market-oriented arguments of economists, this book provides a much-needed analysis of the 1975 land reforms and what they have meant at a local level. The authors show that rather than leading to periodic redistribution and tenure insecurity, farmers had 'conditional' private ownership, thinking of the land as their own, although within the framework of ultimate state control. Social differentiation is found to be low, with land tenancy linked to household processes. A valuable insight into rural societes in Africa, the book also has implications for policymakers and NGOs concerned with land issued in the Global South
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| ISBN | 978-1-84701-224-1
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