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Land Tenure Security - State-peasant relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia (Hardcover)
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Land Tenure Security - State-peasant relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia (Hardcover)
Series: Eastern Africa Series
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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 Shawa, Walo 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 the framework of ultimate
state control. The book also reveals the importance of social
differentiation, with the peasant farm closely linked to household
processes. In rural economies such as Ethiopia, the land question
remains critical for future development, and the book ends by
drawing out the implications of the authors' research for
policymakers, governments and societies in the Global South. SVEIN
EGE is Associate Professor in African Studies at the Department of
Social Anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim. His published works include The Promised
Land: The Amhara land redistribution of 1997 (1997).
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