Farm Labor Migrations in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia

Kloos, Helmut

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“…For a long period of time, pastoralists were the early pioneers of Aba'ala district. Tracing back to the historical connections established between the pastoralists and migrants from the highlands of neighbouring Tigray, both communities started living and working together since the middle of the twentieth century (Kloos 1982). As the result, migrants from the Tigray region continued practising crop farming and animal husbandry in Aba'ala.…”

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The effects of adaptation to climate change on income of households in rural Ethiopia

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Climate change is one of the most serious impediments to agricultural prosperity in Ethiopia, especially where livestock is concerned. In particular, rural farming communities in the drylands of the Afar region are severely exposed to the impacts of climate change, with stark reminders from repeating droughts followed by crop failure and livestock decimation. Locals have a long history of applying adaptation measures to maintain their sustenance. However, a growing literature challenges whether these traditional methods can continue to sustain local livelihoods. This study identifies how pastoral, semi-pastoral, agro-pastoral and mixed-farming communities in Afar perceive and adapt to climate change and whether these practices have brought about any improvement in farm income. A panel data set of five years was gathered using structured questionnaires from a sample of 313 households. Household heads pointed out indicators to identify climate-related stress such as erratic rainfall, drought, temperature change, drying of water sources, prevalence of diseases and lack of human and livestock feed. A fixed effects quantitative model on the panel data was estimated to verify the effect of adaptation strategies on income of household heads. We found that the main adaptation strategies that significantly influenced household income levels were forage production (hay and straw), access to water sources, livestock diversification and migration. The implication is that people severely affected by climate change and living in a situation demanding urgent solutions can actively apply various adaptation strategies if the strategies are linked to the creation of sustainable income benefits. Thus, integrated approaches comprising adaptation methods and expected benefits are an important way to induce farming communities to address challenges related to climatic change.

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Settler migration during the 1984/85 resettlement programme in Ethiopia

Kloos

Adugna

1989

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The recent history of resettlement in Ethiopia is briefly reviewed and the causes, flow patterns and some demograpic impacts of the 1984/85 government-sponsored resettlement migration are examined with the objective of identifying motivations and constraints in the migration process, analysing changes in population distribution and examining policy implications. Famine was the major push factor in migration, but traditional reactions of peasants to drought and overpopulation caused more drought victims to leave their homes spontaneously for relief and transit centres than as recruits of the government-sponsored resettlement programme. However, motivation to migrate and distances travelled to centres showed strong regional variation, indicating the severity of the famine and traditional adaptive strategies. Changes in rural population density were significant in several awrajas (districts) but were reduced by return migration. Problems associated with this emergency resettlement programme are reflected in difficulties during programme implementation, generally low agricultural production of settlers and high rates of return migration. Further studies are nceded on the ecological impact of settler migration in both sending and receiving areas, peasant coping behaviour, as well as the evolution of new settler migration patterns in the new settlement areas in W Ethiopia.

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A pragmatic high modernism? rural development and state building in the Ethiopian lowlands, c. 1960–2019.

Puddu

2022

Critical African Studies

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Farm Labor Migrations in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

The effects of adaptation to climate change on income of households in rural Ethiopia

The effects of adaptation to climate change on income of households in rural Ethiopia

Settler migration during the 1984/85 resettlement programme in Ethiopia

A pragmatic high modernism? rural development and state building in the Ethiopian lowlands, c. 1960–2019.

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