Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia

by Getnet Bekele

In October 2016, the Ethiopian administration declared a State of Emergency in response to anti-Government demonstrations and mass riots. Officially said to result from subversive activities channelled from Eritrea, Egypt and diasporic populations in the West, the evidence in fact suggests that the riots stemmed from widespread internal dissatisfaction. Large-scale land dispossessions following bilateral deals with transnational agribusiness, damming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847011748
• ISBN13: 9781847011749
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"