Identifying the political and socio-economic forces that feed the cycle of environmental degradation and famine in Ethiopia - forces that are major impediments to sustainable agricultural dvelopments - this study provides a comparison of peasants' views and government policies on key environmental issues such as resettlement, collective farming, population growth, livestock density, and the various approaches to conservation and rehabilitation activities in famine-affected areas. Alemneh Dejene's conclusions are based on a combination of survey data, an in-depth case study, and participant observation at the village level. These lead him to prescribe policies and legislation that will provide needed incentives to peasant farmers while eliminating development programmes that are unpopular with those farmers and harmful to the environment. Alemneh Dejene, an agriculturist with the World Bank, is author of "Peasants, Agrarian Socialism, and Rural Development in Ethiopia".
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. The Author (illustrator). First U.S. Edition. Tan cloth. With black-and-white photographs and statistical tables. In 1998, the author became a Senior Officer of Sustainable Development Policy at the Natural Resource Management and Environment Department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). INSCRIBED to media personality and author Michael Guillen and SIGNED by the author on front endpaper (April, 1991). Clean, tight, and unworn. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 13809
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. xii, 151p. Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1990. Seller Inventory # CL02516