Collective Action and Vulnerability: Burial Societies in Rural Ethiopia

Dercon, Stefan; Hoddinott, John; Krishnan, Pramila; Woldehannnam, Tassew

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1260274

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“…Risk coping strategies include sales of assets, intensifying livelihood activities or adopting new ones, use of formal and informal credit, reducing non-essential expenditures and drawing on social networks and public programs for assistance. In highland Ethiopia, rural households prepare for drought by accumulating livestock, planting drought-resistant crops, and participating in traditional risk-sharing networks (Meze-Hausken 2000; Little et al 2006; Dercon et al 2008). They can also respond to drought by selling livestock, drawing on assistance from networks, delaying marriage, and accessing publically available food aid and food-for-work programs (Webb 1993; Ezra 2001; Caeyers & Dercon 2008).…”

Section: Household Responses To Droughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drought and Population Mobility in Rural Ethiopia

2012

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Significant attention has focused on the possibility that climate change will displace large populations in the developing world, but few multivariate studies have investigated climate-induced migration. We use event history methods and a unique longitudinal dataset from the rural Ethiopian highlands to investigate the effects of drought on population mobility over a ten-year period. The results indicate that men’s labor migration increases with drought and that land-poor households are most vulnerable. However, marriage-related moves by women also decrease with drought. These findings suggest a hybrid narrative of environmentally-induced migration that recognizes multiple dimensions of adaptation to environmental change.

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Section: Household Responses To Droughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drought and Population Mobility in Rural Ethiopia

2012

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“…In addition, they were asked whether there were other people, beyond these five, who could be relied on for help in time of need. We call such individuals a "network" [59]. And in this section we provide descriptive statistics on two major dimensions of these networks: network proximity and characteristics of individuals within a household network.…”

Section: International Journal Of Population Researchmentioning

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Harnessing Social Capital for Resilience to Livelihood Shocks: Ethnographic Evidence of Indigenous Mutual Support Practices among Rural Households in Eastern Ethiopia

Endris

Kibwika

Hassan

et al. 2017

International Journal of Population Research

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In the absence of adequate support from formal social safety nets, rural households in Ethiopia have developed collective risksharing strategies to buffer them against adverse livelihood shocks, thus building their resilience capacities. Social capital and network based indigenous mutual support arrangements are the most important strategies that are institutionalized and widely practiced among rural households for centuries in Ethiopia to support households to cope with shocks. Nonetheless, resilience research and rural poverty alleviation policies have yet to fully recognize and embrace social capital as a tool to tackle poverty and vulnerability. Robust policy and academic studies on the role of indigenous welfare system with implications for social development policy making in Ethiopia are lacking. Using ethnographic techniques and simple descriptive statistics, we studied indigenous mutual support systems and how they shape the resilience trajectories of rural households against livelihood shocks within two selected PAs of Babille district of Oromia region. We found that mutual support practices are very effective in building coping resilience of households by smoothing consumption shocks. However, the traditional coping mechanisms often fail when the shock is systemic or covariate, when shocks last longer, and when a household has low level of human or finical capital.

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“…With model farm distinction comes an inflow of government assistance. This system is well-suited to limited funds and staff members; but, as previously mentioned, ordinary farmers may perceive model farmers as a privileged group they are unable to mirror [17,18]. This understanding limits the application of information received during farmer field schools held on model farms.…”

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Understanding the Role of Fish Farmer Associations as Intermediaries for the Commercialization of Aquaculture in Uganda

Stutzman¹,

Molnar²,

Atukunda³

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Aquaculture development commentary supports the formation of fish farmer associations or producer organizations as avenues for cultivating small-and medium-scale commercial farmers. However, little is known about the types of associations that facilitate commercialization. This research presents four qualitative case studies, based on semi-structured interviews, profiling existing associations of commercial fish farmers in Uganda. We conclude that the umbrella organizations under which local fish farmer associations vertically align themselves have important implications for fish farmer production. Aquaculture-specific umbrella organizations contribute to the success of local member association's more than general umbrella organizations do. Successful fish farmer associations accept government assistance only when it directly improves their fish farm operations. Other farmer groups seemed to wait for direct subsidization. Training fish farmers, providing quality information, cost sharing, and advocating for the aquaculture sector, not donor seeking, are the top priorities in productive fish farmer associations.

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Collective Action and Vulnerability: Burial Societies in Rural Ethiopia

Cited by 19 publications

References 66 publications

Drought and Population Mobility in Rural Ethiopia

Drought and Population Mobility in Rural Ethiopia

Harnessing Social Capital for Resilience to Livelihood Shocks: Ethnographic Evidence of Indigenous Mutual Support Practices among Rural Households in Eastern Ethiopia

Understanding the Role of Fish Farmer Associations as Intermediaries for the Commercialization of Aquaculture in Uganda

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