Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia (eBook, PDF)

State Policy and Smallholder Farming
Redaktion: Beyene, Atakilte

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

For thousands of years, Ethiopia has depended on its smallholding farmers to provide the bulk of its food needs. But now, such farmers find themselves under threat from environmental degradation, climate change and declining productivity. As a result, smallholder agriculture has increasingly become subsistence-oriented, with many of these farmers trapped in a cycle of poverty. Smallholders have long been marginalised by mainstream development policies, and only more recently has their crucial importance been recognised for addressing rural poverty through agricultural reform.

This collection, written by leading Ethiopian scholars, explores the scope and impact of Ethiopia's policy reforms over the past two decades on the smallholder sector. Focusing on the Lake Tana basin in northwestern Ethiopia, an area with untapped potential for growth, the contributors argue that any effective policy will need to go beyond agriculture to consider the role of health, nutrition and local food customs, as well as including increased safeguards for smallholder's land rights. They in turn show that smallholders represent a vitally overlooked component of development strategy, not only in Ethiopia but across the global South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 209
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786992208
• Artikelnr.: 53461721

Autorenporträt

Atakilte Beyene is a senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute. His work has involved extensive field studies in Ethiopia and Tanzania, and he has previously held positions at Stockholm University, the Stockholm Environment Institute, and Ethiopia's Tigray Development Association. His other works include the edited collection Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa (Zed 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

State Policies and Questions of Agrarian Transformation
Atakilte Beyene 1. Agricultural Input Supply and Output Marketing Systems
Fentahun Tesafa 2. Agricultural Investment Alternatives and the Smallholder Farming Sector
Kassa Teshager Alemu 3. Large
Scale Canal Irrigation Management by Smallholder Farmers
Atakilte Beyene 4. Determinants of Climate
resilient Agricultural Practices among Smallholder Farmers
Nigussie Abadi and Girmay Tesfay 5. Sociocultural Dimensions of Food: The Case of Teff
Gedef Abawa 6. The Impact of Malaria Epidemics on Agricultural Production in Dembia and Fogera, 1950
2000
Fantahun Ayele 7. Women Farmers' Land Rights in the Context of Constraining Cultural Norms
Mulunesh Abebe Alebachew 8. Rural Transformation through Robust Land Rights
Daniel Ambaye Concluding Remarks
Atakilte Beyene