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| Title: | DIFFERENTIAL LIVELIHOOD AND ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES OF |
| Authors: | ABEJE, MENBERU |
| Advisors: | Taddesse Berriso |
| Keywords: | SOUTHWESTERN
ETHIOPIA |
| Copyright: | Oct-2011 |
| Date Added: | 3-Nov-2012 |
| Publisher: | AAU |
| Abstract: | This study attempted to explain the dynamic livelihood and adaptive strategies of the
spontaneous and state-organized resettlers in Gurafarda Wӓrӓda. The study area since 2001 hs
exhibited demographic and economic changes. The changes took place due to the population
influx from Amhara region and SNNPR (South, Nation, Nationalities and Peoples region) in a
spontaneous and organized manner of resettlement respectively. The study has taken in to
account the intra-regional organized and the inter-regional spontaneous resettlers’ as subject
of study and their livelihood and adaptation strategies as variables. In the livelihood strategies:
land acquisition, land holding, labour recruitment, production, live stalk rearing, socioeconomic
and religious institutions and their role were dealt.
The study, so as to collect the abovementioned data, administer the combination of observation,
interview: formal and informal, survey using questionnaire, case studies from spontaneous,
organized and the host Me’enit community and document analysis. The mixed data collection
method was employed to suit to the dynamics of the schemes and to collect as diverse data as
possible.
The data collected indicated that the resettlers have engaged different approaches in order to
fit to the local environment. Their livelihood and adaptive strategy helped the spontaneous
resettler to benefit from the richness of the local physical environment and gained
immeasurable economic benefit than the organized resettlers. The organized resettlers though
not as the spontaneous resettlers, have social and economic enhancement compared to their
home of origin. The failure is due to the diverse ethnic composition in the new area, inability to
recruit potential resettlers and inefficient management. This differential economic growth of the
spontaneous and organized resettlers had never been without challenges. In this case, as of the
economic and social differential attainments, they recorded difference in conflict |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3615 |
| Appears in: | Thesis - Social Anthropology
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