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Ethio Djibouti Railways
Ethiopia is a landlocked nation (following the independence of Eritrea in 1993). It is also home to Africa’s second largest population, around 108 million (following Nigeria). It has also been one of Africa’s fastest growing countries economically, for over a decade, often putting up growth numbers on par with China (although starting from a much […]
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The Challenges of Drought
Ethiopia and its people struggle with food insecurity and recurring drought. What are the pathways to overcome these challenges? Access to land, the establishment of justice, the creation of cooperatives, agricultural input distribution, farmer training, environmental rehabilitation, irrigation infrastructure, building institutional capacity, creating effective governmental structures. These are components of the narrative we hear in […]
Two Arabs, A Berber and a Jew
Writing anthropological and ethnographic research can be quite challenging. The experiences are so rich that one may not know where to begin and where to end. In “Two Arabs, A Berber and a Jew: Entangled Lives in Morocco” (2016), Lawrence Rosen provides an exemplary model for anyone grappling with these questions. To do so, he […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Islam #Lawrence Rosen #Morocco #Muslims
Rural Development Options
In 1990, Ethiopia was on the cusp of a major transition. The military government was on the way out and the EPRDF would come to power in the following year. It was in this year that “Ethiopia: Options for Rural Development” (1990), edited by Siegfried Pausewang, Fantu Cheru, Stefan Brune and Estetu Chole, was published. […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Ethiopia #Fantu Cheru #Rural Development #Siegfried Pausewang
Agrarian Reform in Ethiopia
Dessalegn Rahmato is the leading scholar of land issues in Ethiopia, a subject he has been researching for decades. He has published a large number of works, including The Peasant and the State (2008). One of his earlier books, Agrarian Reform in Ethiopia (1985) covers the land reform of 1975, when Ethiopia made the most […]
Tags: #Agrarian reform #Dessalegn Rahmato #Ethiopia #Land Reform #Land Tenure
The Khat Conundrum in Ethiopia
The growing, consumption and export of khat (a stimulant) in Ethiopia has rapidly increased in over the last two decades. There is an emerging set of literature that explores khat from a range of perspectives, although the literature has focused on the health impacts and consumption in university settings. The complexity of khat is that […]
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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