Land Use and Property Rights in Northern Ethiopia | Smallholder farming systems response to environmental and social changes

Atakilte Beyene

ISBN 10: 3846598585 / ISBN 13: 9783846598580

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

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Land Use and Property Rights in Northern Ethiopia | Smallholder farming systems response to environmental and social changes | Atakilte Beyene | Taschenbuch | 224 S. | Englisch | 2011 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9783846598580 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Land Use and Property Rights in Northern Ethiopia | Smallholder farming systems response to environmental and social changes
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3846598585
• ISBN 13: 9783846598580
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 15D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 352 grams
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Synopsis

In this study, three interrelated aspects have empirically emerged as determinant in the state of land degradation and its management practices: livelihood, dwelling and land tenure. The livelihood system encompasses concepts of the agricultural use value of the land and how land use itself is situated in broader social relationships. Institutionalized practices, such as sharecropping, explain how management aspects of the land enter productive relationships among villagers. The dwelling aspect, being a broader part of the relations and commitments of the villagers to their landscape, explains land users’ perception and values of the land. The land tenure systems have secured local people’s user rights to land. Nonetheless, the tenure systems are poor in promoting farm integrity, long-term security and transfers of land resources to more competitive and productive farmers. Future approaches that aim to promote good land and agricultural management practices should consider these broader issues simultaneously.

About the Author

Atakilte Beyene has educational background in Development Studies (Ph.D. 2003), Farm Forestry (M.Sc. 1996) and Forestry (B.Sc. 1992). His expertise includes rural economy; agrarian change; land and water rights; and sustainable livelihood systems. He has worked in government, NGO, universities and research institutes in Africa and Europe.