The Case of Quowet Wereda In North Shewa Zone of Theamhara National State
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2003-07
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Addis Ababauniversity
Abstract
This study on Farmer-Herder conflict attempted to explore one area of the
problems of local development, which is local instability. Conflict hampers
local and national development by mainly affecting rural agro-pastoral
productivity. Especially in conflict prone areas where the conflicts are of
higher magnitude, the livelihoods of the producer communities are
threatened to greater extents.
This study, on the highland-lowland transition zone of Northeastern
Ethiopia, and particularly on Quowet Wereda of North Shewa Zone, has
explored the nature and causes of the conflict in the study area. The prime
assumption at the beginning of the study was that as in many semi-arid
areas where natural resource scarcity dictates the relationship among
farmers and herders sharing a common production zones, the major cause
of conflict in this area would be resource scarcity. The study also revealed
that natural resource scarcity, coupled with other factors like tenure and
boundary regulations, was found to be the inherent cause of conflict
between farmers and herders. The conflict in the study area was found to
be of higher magnitude both in terms of recurrence and intensity, which
worsens with the aggravation of resource scarcity in the absence of
sustainable conflict resolution
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Theamhara National State Atkilt Daniel