Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia

Getnet Bekele

doi:10.1017/9781787440586

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, where he teaches African History and the Environmental and Economic History of Africa and the Global South.

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Note on Orthography
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1 - Landscape Pastoral: The making and remaking of a grassland environment, 1886–1916
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2 - Negotiating a Landscape: Continuity and change in a grassland environment, 1917–1941
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3 - Blurring the Boundaries: The ascendancy of crop production in a flexible environment, 1942–1955
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4 - Fresh Encounters and Morphing Strategies: The changing organization of production in an era of agricultural intervention, 1956–1965
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5 - Inputs, Outputs and the Farm: Transformations in the science, politics and praxis of agricultural development, 1966–1974
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6 - Competition and Co–existence: Creating space for small- to large-scale farming, 1966-1974
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7 - Of Production and Production Relations: Farming in an era of revolutionary change and socialist development, 1975–1991
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8 - Vicious Circle: Agricultural development at the time of ‘revolutionary democracy’, 1991–2016
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Index
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Eastern African Studies
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Maps and Tables
pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements
pp x-xi

Note on Orthography
pp xi-xi

Acronyms & Abbreviations
pp xii-xiii

Glossary
pp xiv-xv

Map
pp xvi-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-21

1 - Landscape Pastoral: The making and remaking of a grassland environment, 1886–1916
pp 22-40

2 - Negotiating a Landscape: Continuity and change in a grassland environment, 1917–1941
pp 41-59

3 - Blurring the Boundaries: The ascendancy of crop production in a flexible environment, 1942–1955
pp 60-80

4 - Fresh Encounters and Morphing Strategies: The changing organization of production in an era of agricultural intervention, 1956–1965
pp 81-103

5 - Inputs, Outputs and the Farm: Transformations in the science, politics and praxis of agricultural development, 1966–1974
pp 104-123

6 - Competition and Co–existence: Creating space for small- to large-scale farming, 1966-1974
pp 124-140

7 - Of Production and Production Relations: Farming in an era of revolutionary change and socialist development, 1975–1991
pp 141-158

8 - Vicious Circle: Agricultural development at the time of ‘revolutionary democracy’, 1991–2016
pp 159-173

Conclusion
pp 174-179

Bibliography
pp 180-200

Index
pp 201-207

Eastern African Studies
pp 208-208

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