Land Tenure Security: State-Peasant Relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia

The land issue, as in other parts of Africa, dominates life in Ethiopia, where agriculture accounts for 80 per cent of employment, but despite land reform, progress seems out of reach for many. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in northern Ethiopia from the 1990s onwards, this is a welcome and overdue local analysis of the impact of the land tenure system in the Amhara highlands. Complementing the macro research of international economists,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847012248
• ISBN13: 9781847012241
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"