Getnet Bekele

Ploughing New Ground (eBook, ePUB)

Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth analysis of the politics and practice of food production and supply in Ethiopia, and their impact on the largely agricultural economy and farming populations, who represent nearly 80 per cent of the country's population.



Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2018.

In October 2016, the Ethiopian administration declared a State of Emergency in response to anti-Government demonstrations and mass riots. While the Government claimed the riots stemmed from subversive activities among large diasporic populations in the West, the evidence suggests that they were provoked by widespread internal dissatisfaction.Land deals by the Government with foreign investors, the building of vast hydroelectric dams, sugar estates and industry parks, and urban sprawl have put pressure on agricultural, rural areas. Today, dispossessions, drought and social unrest surround fears of the worst food shortages in decades. Examining these developments in Ethiopia's lake region, the author shows how transformations in state-society relations and the organization of production and exchange have impacted on a population of smallholder farmers for whom agriculture is not only the mainstay of the economy but a way of life.

Getnet Bekele is Associate Professor of History at Oakland University, MI, wherehe teaches African History and the Environmental and Economic History of Africa and the Global South.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787440531
• Artikelnr.: 49121522

Autorenporträt

Getnet Bekele

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Landscape Pastoral: The making and remaking of a grassland environment, 1886
1916 Negotiating a Landscape: Continuity and change in a grassland environment, 1917
1941 Blurring the Boundaries: The ascendancy of crop production in a flexible environment, 1942
1955 Fresh Encounters and Morphing Strategies: The changing organization of production in an era of agricultural intervention, 1956
1965 Inputs, Outputs and the Farm: Transformations in the science, politics and praxis of agricultural development, 1966
1974 Competition and Co
existence: Creating space for small
to large
scale farming, 1966
1974 Of Production and Production Relations: Farming in an era of revolutionary change and socialist development, 1975
1991 Vicious Circle: Agricultural development at the time of "revolutionary democracy", 1991
2016 Conclusion