Bekele

Ploughing New Ground

Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia

James Currey

ISBN 978-1-84701-199-2

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Bibliografische Daten

Buch. Softcover

2017

In englischer Sprache

Umfang: 224 S.

Format (B x L): 15,6 x 23,4 cm

Gewicht: 670

Verlag: James Currey

ISBN: 978-1-84701-199-2

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Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Eastern Africa Series; 38

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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