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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 […]
The Collapse of Globalism
For decades, globalization was promoted as a process to increase global prosperity. In 2005, John Ralston Saul published “The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World” to make the case that globalism was on the decline. Many have praised the book as seeing well beyond its time, particularly as the financial crises followed […]
Tags: #Globalism #Globalization #John Ralston Saul #Nationalism #Negative Nationalism
Professional Development Options (Online & Free)
For those interested to gain more skills that are relevant to development and humanitarian activities, this post will list free, online resources. Each includes a brief description. If you have other suggestions of free training options, send me an email and I will add them. I have recommended that you try to make this a habit […]
Tags: #Free training #Humanitarian assistance #International development #Online Training #Professional Development
Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia
“Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia: State Policy and Smallholder Farming” (2018) edited by Atakilte Beyene is an excellent book on diverse components of the agricultural sector. Given the importance of agriculture in Ethiopia, this is an important addition as there are few books that cover the sector comprehensively (several are available that cover specific components). The introduction by Atakilte […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Atakilte Beyene #Ethiopia #Rural Development #Smallholder farming
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a 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 twenty 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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