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| Crewett, Wibke; Bogale, Ayalneh; Korf, Benedikt. |
| Ethiopia experiences a fierce political debate about the appropriate land tenure policy. After the fall of the socialist derg regime in 1991, land property rights have remained vested in the state and only usufruct rights have been alienated to farmers – to the disappointment of international donor agencies. This has nurtured an antagonistic debate between advocates of the privatization of land property rights to individual plot holders and those supporting the government’s position. This debate, however, fails to account for the diversity and continuities in Ethiopian land tenure systems. This paper reviews the changing bundles of rights farmers have held during various political regimes in Ethiopia, the imperial, the derg and the current one, at... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Ethiopia; Land tenure; Property rights regime; Bundles of rights; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50890 |
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| Bogale, Ayalneh; Korf, Benedikt. |
| This paper analyses the extent and determinants of rural household poverty in the eastern highlands of Ethiopia. We study 216 households using a household consumption expenditure approach. We are particularly interested in the effects of location-specific and institutional factors (networks) in determining the probability of being poor. Our findings suggest that poverty is location-specific, depends on access to irrigated land (not land per se) and access to non-farm income. Results also indicate that household wellbeing is negatively affected by household size, and positively affected by age of household head. Involvement in governance, social and production related networks is also found to be strongly associated with the probability of a household be... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Rural poverty; Ordered probit; Institutional factors; Eastern Hararghe; Ethiopia; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51469 |
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| Bogale, Ayalneh; Korf, Benedikt. |
| It is often argued that environmental scarcity was a trigger and source of violent conflict, in particular in African countries. At the root of such arguments is a simple environmental determinism, which understands scarcity as undermining co-operative relationships between competing resource users. Robert Kaplan popularised this thesis in his argument about "The Coming Anarchy", where he interpreted recent civil wars in Africa as an advent of a fundamental environmental crisis. In our view, this conception disregards the crucial role of local-level institutions in governing competing resource claims. In this paper, we present a case study from the violence-prone Somali Region, Ethiopia. We analyse how agro-pastoralist communities develop sharing... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; Political Economy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18842 |
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| Bogale, Ayalneh; Korf, Benedikt; Hagedorn, Konrad. |
| Capitalizing on the mobility of livestock is one of the major ways in which pastoralists have managed ecological uncertainties and risks, as it enables them the opportunistic use of the resources. However, agricultural encroachment onto rangelands by nearby agro-pastoralists has led to a shortage in grazing area and threatened the mobility of the pastoralists. As this process leads to a significant disruption and weakening of the risk-management systems of pastoralists, they seek for various institutional arrangements with agropastoralists to enable them access to common grazing land. Based on an exploratory survey and data derived from interview of 146 households in ea stern Ethiopia, this paper uses an adaptation of the sequential rationality game... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25257 |
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| Bogale, Ayalneh; Hagedorn, Konrad; Korf, Benedikt. |
| This paper seeks to address the question: why does poverty persist in rural Ethiopia? We argue that it is largely a lack of entitlements to fundamental livelihood assets which urges poor rural farmers into livelihood diversification to make a living. We base our findings on empirical work, which is based on information gathered from a three-round survey of 149 rural households in Ethiopia during 1999/2000 cropping season. The FGT poverty index is employed to examine the extent and severity of rural poverty and reveals that nearly 40% of the sample households live below poverty line with average poverty gap of 0.047. The binary logit estimates shed light on factors behind the persistence of poverty and indicates that rural poverty is strongly linked to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Rural poverty; Livelihoods; Diversification; Ethiopia; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25857 |
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