Author: University of Trondheim : Centre for Environment and Development : Ethiopia rese
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ISBN: 9788290817010
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Peasant Survival Strategies and Development
Author: University of Trondheim : Centre for Environment and Development : Ethiopia rese
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788290817010
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788290817010
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Peasant Survival Strategies and Development
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Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Peasant Survival Strategies and Development
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Towards Understanding Peasant Survival Strategies Through Reconstructing Household Budgets
Author: Eva Poluha
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Category : Home economics, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Category : Home economics, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Peasant Production and Development
Author: Svein Ege
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Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Famine and Survival Strategies
Author: Dessalegn Rahmato
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171063144
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
What do peasants do in the face of severe food crisis and ecological stress, and how do they manage to survive on their own? This study revolves around a case study conducted by the author in the awraja (district) in the Ambassel Wollo province in northeastern Ethiopia. This is in the region that was hit hardest by the 1984-85 famine, which Rahmato calls "the worst tragedy rural Ethiopia had ever experienced". The author also critically examines other literature on famine response. The focus of this study is on what happens before famine comes, and how the peasants prepare for it. From a wealth of evidence, the author concludes that the seeds of famine are sown during the years of recovery.
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171063144
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
What do peasants do in the face of severe food crisis and ecological stress, and how do they manage to survive on their own? This study revolves around a case study conducted by the author in the awraja (district) in the Ambassel Wollo province in northeastern Ethiopia. This is in the region that was hit hardest by the 1984-85 famine, which Rahmato calls "the worst tragedy rural Ethiopia had ever experienced". The author also critically examines other literature on famine response. The focus of this study is on what happens before famine comes, and how the peasants prepare for it. From a wealth of evidence, the author concludes that the seeds of famine are sown during the years of recovery.
Food Security and Peasants' Survival Strategy, a Study of a Village in Northern Shewa, Ethiopia
Author: Frehiwot Tesfaye
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Ethiopia is an old agrarian society endowed with a skilled and hard-working peasantry that carries a rich fund of agricultural knowledge. Yet Ethiopian peasants have been the main victims of the cyclical droughts and famines. Recurring famines helped to bring about the 1974 revolution. Many radical reforms were introduced by the post-1974 regime with the aim of giving peasants more economic and political power, increasing agricultural productivity and ending, agrarian poverty. The reforms sought to achieve a radical break with the past. The thesis analyzes the impact of these changes on the peasants. It shows that the negation of local initiative and traditional knowledge and institutions, rather than strengthening the peasantry, weakened their survival capacity and made them more vulnerable to crisis. The severity of the 1984-85 famine is viewed in this context. The central argument of the thesis is that peasants' marginal political and economic position hinders their ability to adapt to rapidly changing, social conditions. In the past, their subordination to landlords and the state perpetuated poverty and limited their capacity to cope with crises. Their continued political and economical subordination continues to prevent them from overcoming rural poverty. Combining political economy and oral history, this study traces the spontaneous migration of peasants from the overpopulated area of Wello to the sparsely populated region of Northern Shewa in search of land. It shows how the migrants creatively combined their knowledge of the past with hard work and technical, political and social ingenuity to adapt to the socially and ecologically diverse environment of the new region in pursuit of a livelihood. The thesis elucidates how peasants use their material and non-material resources and past experiences with droughts and famines to innovate survival strategies. It stresses that peasant resourcefulness needs to be supported and encouraged for the sake of long-term, sustained development. A development policy, utilizing peasants' initiative and local resources is an effective substitute for state reforms imposed from above or occasional food relief by outside agencies.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ethiopia is an old agrarian society endowed with a skilled and hard-working peasantry that carries a rich fund of agricultural knowledge. Yet Ethiopian peasants have been the main victims of the cyclical droughts and famines. Recurring famines helped to bring about the 1974 revolution. Many radical reforms were introduced by the post-1974 regime with the aim of giving peasants more economic and political power, increasing agricultural productivity and ending, agrarian poverty. The reforms sought to achieve a radical break with the past. The thesis analyzes the impact of these changes on the peasants. It shows that the negation of local initiative and traditional knowledge and institutions, rather than strengthening the peasantry, weakened their survival capacity and made them more vulnerable to crisis. The severity of the 1984-85 famine is viewed in this context. The central argument of the thesis is that peasants' marginal political and economic position hinders their ability to adapt to rapidly changing, social conditions. In the past, their subordination to landlords and the state perpetuated poverty and limited their capacity to cope with crises. Their continued political and economical subordination continues to prevent them from overcoming rural poverty. Combining political economy and oral history, this study traces the spontaneous migration of peasants from the overpopulated area of Wello to the sparsely populated region of Northern Shewa in search of land. It shows how the migrants creatively combined their knowledge of the past with hard work and technical, political and social ingenuity to adapt to the socially and ecologically diverse environment of the new region in pursuit of a livelihood. The thesis elucidates how peasants use their material and non-material resources and past experiences with droughts and famines to innovate survival strategies. It stresses that peasant resourcefulness needs to be supported and encouraged for the sake of long-term, sustained development. A development policy, utilizing peasants' initiative and local resources is an effective substitute for state reforms imposed from above or occasional food relief by outside agencies.
Peasant Survival Strategy
Author: Allen Ashaba Magezi
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Category : Community health services
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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Category : Community health services
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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Household Strategies for Survival 1600-2000
Author: Laurence Fontaine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001427
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book considers the 'labouring poor' not simply as victims, but as actively pursuing a whole range of strategies for survival. These strategies included many economic activities. Building and maintaining networks of kinship and neighbourhood was equally important, as was negotiating support from institutions. Sometimes, strategies were successfully integrated within a household, while in other instances the domestic group was split and members preferred to pursue individual strategies. This illuminating book examines the European past using case studies from present-day situations in Asia and Africa.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001427
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book considers the 'labouring poor' not simply as victims, but as actively pursuing a whole range of strategies for survival. These strategies included many economic activities. Building and maintaining networks of kinship and neighbourhood was equally important, as was negotiating support from institutions. Sometimes, strategies were successfully integrated within a household, while in other instances the domestic group was split and members preferred to pursue individual strategies. This illuminating book examines the European past using case studies from present-day situations in Asia and Africa.
Village, Inc.
Author: Flemming Christiansen
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824821135
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The aim of this volume is to understand the forces and processes in local and rural society in China, seeing the local levels of government in rural areas (villages, townships, and towns) as important managers of people and resources and as deeply involved in business and enterprise.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824821135
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The aim of this volume is to understand the forces and processes in local and rural society in China, seeing the local levels of government in rural areas (villages, townships, and towns) as important managers of people and resources and as deeply involved in business and enterprise.