Field study of post-revolutionary agrarian reform and social change in rural area Ethiopia - looks at the agrarian structure and social classes prior to 1975; comments on land reform legislation adopted up to 1982, land nationalization and land allotment, impact on use of agricultural technology, agricultural price, agricultural taxation, and emerging trends in agricultural development: discusses role, structure and leadership of farmers associations, etc. Bibliography and statistical tables.

Field study of the impact of land reform on living conditions of peasant farmers and rural communitys in Ethiopia - comments on the 1975 legislation; gives a historical account of the evolution of social structures, agrarian structures, commerce and customary law towards a capitalist rural economy; analyses the role of social movements and starvation in the revolutionary process, land allotment, creation of farmers associations and womens organizations, etc.; includes three case studies of land reform patterns. Bibliography, statistical tables.

Located in central Ethiopia, the Arssi region is one of the most productive in Ethiopia yet it has so far been neglected by scholars. This book scrutinizes the rural development of Arssi by focusing on the Swedish supported experimental venture known as the Chilalo Agricultural Development Unit (CADU) and later as the Arssi Rural Development Unit (ARDU). Ketebo Abdiyo Ensene investigates how effectively this strategy empowered the peasantry to change their farming techniques and produce beyond subsistence level. He also examines the accumulation of alienated land by the northern Ethiopian nobility through land grants, fake purchases, and other futile means of land grabs and the impact that this had on the native population. Finally, the book reassess the importance of the rural land reform of 1975 that followed the collapses of the imperial regime and argues that this was the most significant event in the history of agricultural development in Ethiopia. The assessment of the book in fact goes into the post-1991 period in relation with agrarian development. The Political Economy of Land and Agrarian Development in Ethiopia will be of interest to scholars of Ethiopia, African Studies, economic history, political economy, development and agriculture.

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on agrarian reform, structural changes and rural development in Ethiopia - examines the socio-political conditions in the pre-revolution period, assesses changes in the agrarian structure after 1975 and the establishment of agricultural cooperatives, impacts on land distribution, agricultural production, agricultural employment and other economic conditions of the rural population, and analyses future development trends. References and statistical tables.