Priceless land

Valuation and compensation of expropriated farmland in the Amhara region, Ethiopia

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ID2182613
AuthorsHarald Aspen (0000-0001-8678-2362, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, corresponding author), Bedemariam Woldeyesus (Wollo University)
Year2020
Volume14
Issue4
Pages651-668
Publication date2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Eastern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-1055 • E-ISSN: 1753-1063
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17531055.2020.1831851
OpenAlexW3097496375
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

In Ethiopia, farmland belongs to 'the people' (the state) and cannot be sold or bought, but compensatory measures have been introduced for land expropriated for infrastructure and industry. The article analyses processes of valuation and compensation of land in Kombolcha district in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Here numerous projects have affected highly productive farmland over the last decade. Monetary compensation to land holders whose farmland is expropriated is relatively new in Ethiopia, and we explore how peasants and authorities gradually have attained increased competence in dealing with land valuation and compensation, faced with often obscure and contradictory legislation

Agricultural economics · Business · Compensation (psychology · Contingent valuation · Economics · Geography · Microeconomics · Natural resource economics · Valuation (finance · Willingness to pay · African history and culture analysis · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Land Rights and Reforms · Finance

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