Land ownership and conflicts over the use of resources: Implication for household vulnerability in eastern Ethiopia

Bogale, Ayalneh; Taeb, M.; Endo, Mitsugi

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.07.002

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“…As Platteau (1992, 166) noted "the best way of exercising control over land is to plant trees." This view is also documented in Ethiopia by Shiferaw and Holden (1998), Gebremedhin and Swinton (2003), Bogale, Taeb, and Endo (2006) and Mekonnen (2009). 9 It is assumed that the covariate vector Z i is uncorrelated with the idiosyncratic unobserved stochastic component , that is, η ij .…”

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How Can African Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change? A Counterfactual Analysis from Ethiopia

Falco¹,

Veronesi²

2013

Land Economics

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Section: Stage I: Selection Model Of Climate Change Adaptation Stratesupporting

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How Can African Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change? A Counterfactual Analysis from Ethiopia

Falco¹,

Veronesi²

2013

Land Economics

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“…All rural land is owned by the state and part of this land is allocated to farmers on a use-right basis (Bogale et al 2006). The rural land reform policy strictly prohibits the transfer of land by sale or mortgage.…”

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A Dynamic Simulation Model of Land-Use, Population, and Rural Livelihoods in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

Garedew

Sandewall

Söderberg

2011

Environmental Management

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The dynamic interactions between society and land resources have to be taken into account when planning and managing natural resources. A computer model, using STELLA software, was developed through active participation of purposively selected farm households from different wealth groups, age groups and gender within a rural community and some members of Kebelle council. The aim of the modeling was to study the perceived changes in land-use, population and livelihoods over the next 30 years and to improve our understanding of the interactions among them. The modeling output is characterized by rapid population growth, declining farm size and household incomes, deteriorating woody vegetation cover and worsening land degradation if current conditions remain. However, through integrated intervention strategies (including forest increase, micro-finance, family planning, health and education) the woody vegetation cover is likely to increase in the landscape, population growth is likely to slow down and households' income is likely to improve. A validation assessment of the simulation model based on historical data on land-use and population from 1973 to 2006 showed that the model is relatively robust.We conclude that as a supporting tool, the simulation model can contribute to the decision making process.

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“…Penker (2009) defined participation as the ability of the local population to decide and develop their own rules and structures, which are based on "structural variables [that] affect the core relationships of reputation, trust, and reciprocity" (Ostrom 2010). Nevertheless, the complexity of the previous processes of spatial concentration, association and social participation may lead to passive attitudes towards forest management (Pinto-Correia 2000, Schlueter 2008), or situations of conflict (Bogale et al 2006, De Jong et al 2006, Matta & Alavalapati 2006, Brehm 2007, Siiskonen 2007.…”

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Does higher owner participation increase conflicts over common land? An analysis of communal forests in Galicia (Spain)

Pérez¹,

Díaz-Varela²,

Calvo-González³

2015

iForest

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© iForest -Biogeosciences and Forestry IntroductionIn a modern sense, public participation in devising forest management is voluntary. Within public participation processes, people, individually or in organized groups, can exchange information, express opinions and articulate interests with the aim of influencing the final result in decision making (ILO 2000, Aasetre 2006, Atmis et al. 2007. It is both an opportunity and a need for today's society, as it is a useful tool to avoid conflicts, share information and encourage good relations with the planning team (Hellström 2001, Kangas & Store 2003, Santos et al. 2006, Janse & Konijnendijk 2007, Hiltunen et al. 2009, Cantiani 2012. Public participation contributes to democratization through the reinforcement of transparency in decision making: it increases plurality of aims, encourages mutual learning and increases the awareness of collective responsibility for natural resource management questions (Elsasser 2002, Kangas et al. 2010, Lennox et al. 2011).According to Ostrom & Nagendra (2006), sustainable governance of natural resources is a challenging task, in which "major debates occur over what types of policy interventions best protect forests, with choices of property and land tenure systems being central issues" and natural resource management can be approached from different views. There are regional differences in practical approaches to biodiversity conflict management because the social, political and economic characteristics of a culture influence the type of conflicts and the response to them (Hellström 2001). In this context, conflicts are confrontations between opposing values and objectives of the stakeholders in the sustainable management of natural resources (Bojórquez-Tapia et al. 2004), often caused by different perceptions of the initial situation of the resources discussed (Gritten et al. 2009). Following Skutsch (2000, conflicts over biodiversity should be regarded as inherent in social participation, reinforcing the ideas of Hellström (2001), which are seen as an important part of the decisionmaking process on how to use the natural resources.Conflicts usually have negative effects on forest management (Druckman 2005). However, the key to understanding and to the new social demands in forest areas (Hellström 2001) lies in the nature of conflicts. Many authors have analyzed conflicts in forest areas (Elands et al. 2004, Maskey et al. 2006, Djamhuri 2008, Schlueter 2008. White et al. (2009) developed a new and innovative framework aimed at improving the conceptual understanding of biodiversity conflicts. This method is based on the analysis of ecological, economic and social factors that affect the behavior of the biodiversity actors responsible for the conflict. This system is useful in developing strategic models to improve the understanding of general conflict dynamics.The aim of the study is to classify in groups the parishes with communal forest land of the Montes Vecinales en Mano Común (MVMC), to analyze the different management levels an...

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Land ownership and conflicts over the use of resources: Implication for household vulnerability in eastern Ethiopia

Cited by 39 publications

References 2 publications

How Can African Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change? A Counterfactual Analysis from Ethiopia

How Can African Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change? A Counterfactual Analysis from Ethiopia

A Dynamic Simulation Model of Land-Use, Population, and Rural Livelihoods in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

Does higher owner participation increase conflicts over common land? An analysis of communal forests in Galicia (Spain)

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