The impact of a State-sponsored irrigation project on Karrayu Pastoralists in Ethiopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22110376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tefera Goshu (0009-0007-2771-5136, University College of Social Sciences, corresponding author), Ayalew Gebre (Addis Ababa University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cogent Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2331-1886 • E-ISSN: 2331-1886 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23311886.2023.2184304 |
| OpenAlex | W4323308356 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article examines how a project intended to help local pastoralists facilitates the accumulation of wealth among elites at the expense of the local people. The data was collected qualitatively from five villages classified spatially based on the variability of water availability and access along the catchment. It was gathered through in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and observation, which were then analyzed using a thematic data analysis strategy. The findings indicate that the Project associated with privatising communal land has transformed land-related social and production relationships. It has been characterisedby the development ofexploitative sharecropping arrangements involving multiple actors and marketing relationships. Landowners pastoralists have marginally benefited while capitalists maximize wealth without dispossessing the locals from their land, i.e., accumulation without dispossession. The study concludes that the Project served as a tool to reinforce local exploitation by dispossessing profit gains from their land while allowing external investors to grow and prosper. Finally, the article suggests a policy implication aimed at strengthening households’ capacity so that local pastoralists can farm independently on their land and reap the full benefits
Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Focus group · Geography · Leasehold estate · Livestock · Pastoralism · Political science · Sharecropping · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Land Rights and Reforms · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Forestry · Marketing
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From Cattle Herding to Charcoal Burning
State-Building in the Ethiopian South-Western Lowlands
Villagization in Ethiopia’s Lowlands
Land’s End
The Will to Improve
Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Market Participation
‘Breaking Every Rule in the Book’
Accumulation by Disposession
Effects of the current land tenure on augmenting household farmland access in South East Ethiopia
Rethinking Capitalist Development
River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads
Accumulation by Dispossession or Accumulation without Dispossession
Better Marginalised than Incorporated? Pastoralist Livelihoods in Somali Region, Ethiopia
Pipe Dreams
Accumulation by Dispossession and Anti-Capitalist Struggles
Mobile pastoralism on the brink of land privatization in Northern Côte d’Ivoire
Postscript
Brokerage from within
Compromising Power
So-called Accumulation by Dispossession
A Theory of Access
The land does not like them
Re-inventing the commons
Ethiopia
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |