Sander van Hooft

In my previous post I discussed Ethiopia’s land registration during the Solomonic Dynasty (until 1975).

Emperor’s Selassie’s imperial rule was overthrown by the Derg regime in 1975. This socialist regime nationalized all rural land and redistributed the land to its farmers. In order to abolish the exploitative landlord-tenant relations, the farmers were organized in Peasant Associations (Abebe, 2006; Crewett, Bogale, & Korf, 2008). » Read the rest of this entry «

Crewett et al. summarize that “Ethiopia has a long legacy of intervention in land tenure relations. The Ethiopian state has exerted considerable influence on local land tenure regimes throughout different political regimes.” But what does this long legacy look like? In this post I discuss the period of the Solomonic Dynasty, until 1975. » Read the rest of this entry «