Land tenure and common pool resources in rural Ethiopia: A study based on fifteen sites

Kebede, Bereket ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4163-6614 (2002) Land tenure and common pool resources in rural Ethiopia: A study based on fifteen sites. African Development Review, 14 (1). pp. 113-149. ISSN 1467-8268

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Abstract

The evolution of land tenure in Ethiopia during the Imperial period directed towards private and individualized property is discussed both in general terms and by examining conditions at specific localities. This evolution was brought to an abrupt end by the land reform of 1975 with nationalization. The same logic of subsistence agriculture as in traditional tenures seems to be the basis for the reform. With the abandonment of the socialist transformation of agriculture no vision about future developments in land tenure seems to exist. Privatization is suggested to improve the security of land holding, to increase agricultural investment, to assist the development of other markets as well as preserve common pool resources.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Experimental Economics (former - to 2017)
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences
Depositing User: Bereket Kebede
Date Deposited: 08 Apr 2011 08:41
Last Modified: 14 Aug 2023 14:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/28538
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.00048

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