Land tenure security : state-peasant relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia

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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...

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Other Authors: Ege, Svein (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester : James Currey, 2019.
Series:Eastern African studies (London, England)
Subjects:
Land tenure > Ethiopia > ʼAmāra kelel.
Peasants > Ethiopia > ʼAmāra kelel > Social conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Land tenure
Peasants > Social conditions
Ethiopia > ʼAmāra kelel
Amhara Highlands.
Development.
Ethiopia.
Gojam regions.
Land reform.
Land tenure security.
North Shäwa.
Peasant land rights.
Peasantry.
Policy responses.
Private ownership.
Rural inequality.
Social differentiation.
Wälo.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Rural land and urban aspirations: future orientation in a time of change / Harald Aspen
  • An unstable land tenure system / Svein Ege
  • Conclusion / Harald Aspen.

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