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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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