Ethiopia
A Social History of Land Reform in Ethiopia
Siegfried Pausewang (1937-2012) was one of the leading European scholars of Ethiopia, with contributions made over decades. His engagement in Ethiopia began in the late 1960s, as a professor at the then Haile Selassie University (now Addis Ababa University). This post covers “Peasants, Land and Society: A Social History of Land Reform in Ethiopia” (1983), […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Ethiopia #Land #Land Reform #Land Tenure
Zara Yacob: Rationality of the Human Heart
Zara Yacob was an Ethiopian philosopher, a rationalist thinking who wrote nearly a hundred years before Descartes. Claude Sumner has written extensively about Zara Yacob, devoting a career to Ethiopian philosophy and penning many books. Kiros says “Sumner is right when he contended that Zara Yacob along with Descartes was a founder of modern philosophy” […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Ethiopian philosophy #Rationalism #Teodros Kiros #Zara Yacob
State-Peasant Relations in the Ethiopian Highlands
One of the leading anthropologists of northern Ethiopia, Svein Ege, edited “Land Tenure Security: State-Peasant Relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia” (2019), with contributions by Svein Ege, Harald Aspen, Kjell Havnevik and the late Yigremew Adal. For anyone interested in issues of land tenure and land security, particularly in highland Ethiopia, this is essential reading. I […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Highlands #Svein Ege #Tenure #Tenure Security
FDI in Large-Scale Agriculture in Africa
In 2019 Atkeyelsh Persson published “Foreign Direct Investment in Large-Scale Agriculture in Africa: Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability in Ethiopia”. The book (presumably) draws on doctoral work done at UCT (finished in 2016) and most of the data / findings presented come from 2014 or before. The book offers unique insight into environmental and sustainability impacts. […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Ethiopia #Foreign Direct Investment #Land Grab #Large-scale land acquisition
The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia
James C. McCann has produced some excellent works of history, and specifically on Ethiopia. This includes From Poverty to Famine (1987) and People of the Plow (1990), as well as The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia (2014). The most recent of these books brings readers into a complex story of malaria over the centuries […]
Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine
de Waal, Alex. 2018: Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine. Cambridge: Polity Press. 264 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 9781509524679 As available: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464993419836552 Readers with an interest in the topic of famine will have frequently come across the name Alex de Waal throughout the past three decades. As a researcher, practitioner and advocate, de Waal has […]
Tags: #Alex De Waal #Ethiopia #Famine #Food Security #Mass Starvation
Ethiopia Engraved
When European travellers and writers came to Ethiopia before the age of photography, the made engravings of what they saw. Richard Pankhurst and Leila Ingrams collected these engravings, from 1540 to 1900, and published them in “Ethiopia Engraved: An Illustrated Catalogue of Engravings by Foreign Travellers from 1681 to 1900” (1988). The period following this […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Ethiopia Engraved #History #Leila Ingrams #Pankhurst
Ethiopia Photographed (1867-1935)
Richard Pankhurst and Denis Gerard are well known to Ethiopians and those interested in Ethiopia. One of the many publications in their names, is “Ethiopia Photographed: Historic Photographs of the Country and its People Taken between 1967 and 1935” (1996). The book has a brief historical introduction, and it followed by hundreds of photographs spread […]
Tags: #Denis Gerard #Ethiopia #History #Pankhurst #Photography
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
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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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