What is the current land policy in Ethiopia?
The problem of Land reform in Ethiopia has hampered that country’s economic development through out the late 19th and 20th centuries. Attempts to modernize land ownership by giving title either to the peasants who till the soil, or to large-scale farming programs, have been tried under imperial rulers like Emperor Haile Selassie, and under Marxist regimes like the Derg, with mixed results. Ethiopia still faces issues of sustainable food self-sufficiency despite repeated efforts at land reform. The land policy can basically be grouped into two and for the sake of clarity and of easy distinction, they are labeled here as the ‘confinement’ versus ‘paternalistic’ views / propositions. As the current land policy in Ethiopia demands permanent residence in a farming community to be eligible for a use right over a piece of land, the ‘confinement’ view accuses the policy of having shackled farmers and forced them to permanently stay in rural areas. A typical argument that could characterize thi
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