Environment, Famine, and Politics in Ethiopia: A Vew From the Village

Dejene, Alemneh

ISBN 10: 1555872409 / ISBN 13: 9781555872403

Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, 1990

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Tan cloth. With black-and-white photographs and statistical tables. In 1998, the author became a Senior Officer of Sustainable Development Policy at the Natural Resource Management and Environment Department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). INSCRIBED to media personality and author Michael Guillen and SIGNED by the author on front endpaper (April, 1991). Clean, tight, and unworn. Seller Inventory # 13809

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Title: Environment, Famine, and Politics in ...

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colorado

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: The Author

Condition: Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First U.S. Edition

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Synopsis:

Identifying the political and socio-economic forces that feed the cycle of environmental degradation and famine in Ethiopia - forces that are major impediments to sustainable agricultural dvelopments - this study provides a comparison of peasants' views and government policies on key environmental issues such as resettlement, collective farming, population growth, livestock density, and the various approaches to conservation and rehabilitation activities in famine-affected areas. Alemneh Dejene's conclusions are based on a combination of survey data, an in-depth case study, and participant observation at the village level. These lead him to prescribe policies and legislation that will provide needed incentives to peasant farmers while eliminating development programmes that are unpopular with those farmers and harmful to the environment. Alemneh Dejene, an agriculturist with the World Bank, is author of "Peasants, Agrarian Socialism, and Rural Development in Ethiopia".