Ethiopia
New Publication: Soil and Water Conservation in Ethiopia
Zerihun N., Tsunekawa, A., Nigussie H., Enyew A., Cochrane, L. and Floquet, A. and Abele, S. (2018). Applying Ostom’s Institutional Analysis and Development to Soil and Water Conservation in Ethiopia. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.039 Abstract: Sustainable land management is of utmost importance in Ethiopia and relies on Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) measures collectively implemented by […]
Tags: #Conservation #Ethiopia #Institutional Analysis #Ostrom #Policy
Ethiopian Migration to the Middle East and South Africa
There are reports of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian women working in the Middle East, and stories of dangerous travel across the continent of those trying to reach South Africa. However, little is known about the actual trends, policies, and pushes/pulls. A 2015 publication by the Ethiopian Forum for Social Studies addressed this topic in […]
Tags: #East Africa #Ethiopia #Forum for Social Studies #International migration #Migration
Social Hierarchy of Dawuro, Southern Ethiopia
A search on Amazon for books about the southern peoples of Ethiopia suggests a dearth of ethnographic publications. However, one key source of well-informed research that is rarely available to scholars outside of Ethiopia are publications produced by Ethiopian scholars and printed by national publishers. The Forum for Social Studies is one key place to […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Dawuro #Ethiopia #Ethnography #Social Hierarchy
The Quest for Socialist Utopia
Bahru Zewde’s “The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement c. 1960-1974” (2014) is brilliant. It is detailed, and may be of interest to a narrow audience as a result. However, this exploration of the student movement – leading up to the overthrow of the Imperial Regime in 1974 – is extremely well done, […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #History #Revolution #Socialism #Student Movement
New Publication: Worldviews Apart: Agriculture Extension and Smallholder Farmers
Cochrane, L. (2017) Worldviews Apart: Agriculture Extension and Ethiopian Smallholder Farmers. Journal of Rural Social Sciences 32: 98-118. Abstract: This paper presents an inquiry-based learning assessment into why farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia were not adopting a new planting methodology promoted by the government and non-governmental organizations. It offers a process of reflexivity whereby assumptions […]
Tags: #Agricultural extension #Agriculture #Ethiopia #Rural Development #Worldviews
The Challenge of Democracy from Below
Edited volumes do not tend to have staying power as a publication – collections of essays pass like most academic articles. Rarely does an edited volume remain an essential reading for decades. “Ethiopia: The Challenge of Democracy from Below” edited by Bahru Zewde and Siegfried Pausewang (2002) is one of those books. A number of […]
Tags: #Democracy #Ethiopia #Governance #Participation #Power
New Publication: Stages of Food Security
Cochrane, L. (2017) Stages of Food Security: A Co-produced Mixed Methods Methodology. Progress in Development Studies 17(4): 1-16. Abstract: This article presents the stages of food security methodology, an adaptation of stages of progress developed by Dr. Krishna. Studies of food security are primarily survey based, applying a common set of generalist indicators across a range […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Ethiopia #Food Security #Mixed methods #Stages of Food Security
Famine in Ethiopia (1958-1977)
One of the earliest comprehensive works on famine in Ethiopia was “Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia, 1958-1977”, written by Mesfin Wolde Mariam (published 1986). The author is noteworthy for a career advocating for human rights, for which he was nominated for the Sakharov Prize, and also for which he was imprisoned by the Government […]
Tags: #Drought #Ethiopia #Famine #Food Security #Mesfin Wolde Mariam
List of Ethiopian Academic Journals
Appear active (alphabetical) Abyssinia Journal of Business and Social Sciences (Wollo University) Abyssinia Journal of Engineering and Computing (Wollo University) Abyssinia Journal of Science and Technology (Wollo University) Bahir Dar Journal of Education (Bahir Dar University) Bahir Dar University Journal of Law (Bahir Dar University) Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia (Chemical Society of […]
Tags: #Academic Journal #Ethiopia #Ethiopian Academic Journals #Ethiopian Journals #Ethiopian University
Doctoral Dissertation: Strengthening Food Security in Rural Ethiopia
Cochrane, L. 2017. Strengthening Food Security in Rural Ethiopia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of British Columbia. Abstract: Food insecurity in rural areas of southern Ethiopia is widespread; in recent years over half of all communities in this region have been reliant upon emergency support. However, food security status varies significantly from year to year, as the […]
Tags: #Coproduction #Ethiopia #Food Security #Rural Development #Strengthening food security
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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