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Participation in Social Research in Rural Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Siegfried Pausewang
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A world conference on agrarian reform and rural development came to the conclusion a decade ago that since real progress could only be achieved in these fields if the peasants participated in both the necessary planning and practical work, the prerequisites were democratic organisations for local self-administration and self-reliance.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , June 1988 , pp. 253 - 276
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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Page 253 note 1 F.A.O., ‘Ethiopia. Report on the High-Level WCARRD Follow-up Mission, May 3–9, 1982’, Rome, 1982.

Page 255 note 1 For more details about rist, as well as the historical development of different systems of land tenure and the social relations accompanying them, see Pausewang, Siegfried, Peasants, Land and Society. A Social History of Land Reform in Ethiopia (Munich and London, 1983);Google ScholarRahmato, Dessalegn, Agrarian Reform in Ethiopia (Uppsala, 1984);Google Scholar and Mengistae, Taye and Solomon, Beyene, A Study of Land Reform in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa, 1982).Google Scholar

Page 256 note 1 ‘Achefer-Shebadino Study. Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, with Particular Emphasis on Peasant Production and Participatory Structure and Local Level Planning’, confidential draft report submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture, Addis Ababa, 1986, revised 1987.

Page 258 note 1 For a more detailed report on problems in empirical social research in rural Ethiopia, see Pausewang, Siegfried, Methods and Concepts of Social Research in a Rural Developing Society (Munich and London, 1973).Google Scholar

Page 258 note 2 Hoben, Allan, Land Tenure Among the Amhara of Ethiopia: the dynamics of cognative descent (Chicago, 1973);Google ScholarLevine, Donald, Wax and Gold. Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture (Chicago and London, 1965);Google ScholarPausewang, Siegfried, ‘The History of Land Tenure and Social Personality Development in Ethiopia’ in Rural Africana (East Lansing), 11, 1970, pp. 82–9;Google Scholar and Pankhurst, Richard, State and Land in Ethiopian History (Addis Ababa, 1966).Google Scholar

Page 259 note 1 Pausewang, Peasants, Land and Society, pp. 17–85.Google Scholar See also Cohen, John M. and Koehn, Peter, ‘Rural and Urban Land Reform in Ethiopia’, in African Law Studies (Littleton, Colorado), 14, 1977, pp. 3–61.Google Scholar

Page 261 note 1 For example, according to the report, peasants demanded that research and extension be more directly concerned with their particular problems. In fact, they complained that extension hardly reached them and that research had little relevance for them, but that they would appreciate more help. The rest is really our interpretation.

Page 268 note 1 Cf. Holmberg, John, Grain Marketing and Land Reform in Ethiopia (Uppsala, 1977), and Gebre Meskel Dessalegne, ‘Food Marketing in Ethiopia’, A.M.C., Addis Ababa, November 1985.Google Scholar

Page 269 note 1 These problems are discussed more fully in ‘Achefer-Shebadino Study’.

Page 269 note 2 Data on this and related issues are presented in ibid. It should be noted, however, that our field assistants did not measure the land, but relied on information from leaders of producer co-operatives and individual peasants. Figures are not completely comparable because officials may have had more accurate data than the guesses of our informants.

Page 274 note 1 See Ståhl, Michael, Ethiopia: political contradiction in agricultural development (Stockholm, 1974).Google Scholar