Linking local vulnerability to global sesame market price: The case of temporary rural-rural migrants from Quarit district, Ethiopia

Ayele, Linger; Degefa, Terefe

doi:10.1016/j.resglo.2019.100004

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“…Urban centres have limited capacity to create employment opportunities to these employment seeking population (Tesso 2020). There is no doubt that lack of alternative employment opportunities at both rural home and urban centres of Ethiopia leads to increased labour migration to other rural areas (Linger and Terefe 2019).…”

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“…There are explicit policy orientations that discourage rural urban migration. Implicitly, migration is discouraged by means of its land policy that requires landholders to settle permanently in rural areas and use the land; otherwise they are subjected to lose the land (Linger and Terefe 2019).…”

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“…Private peasant sesame cropland increased from 185,912 ha in 2007/2008to 388,246 ha in 2015(Linger and Terefe 2019.…”

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The Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation uses a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (Netherlands) licence for its reports.The user may copy, distribute and transmit the work and create derivative works. Third-party material that has been used in the work and to which intellectual property rights apply may not be used without prior permission of the third party concerned. The user must specify the name as stated by the author or licence holder of the work, but not in such a way as to give the impression that the work of the user or the way in which the work has been used are being endorsed. The user may not use this work for commercial purposes.The Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation accepts no liability for any damage arising from the use of the results of this research or the application of the recommendations. Report WCDI-21-143 Photo cover: www.sbnethiopia.org Contents Org. Project Case (main livelihood activities/focus) Comments WCDI / FAO FNS Repro Somaliland, Sool and Sanaag regions (livestock & fodder) Rich data available, food system approach South Sudan (gum arabic and seed) Complex, relief phase, poor data availability WCDI -Benefit BENEFIT-Sesame Business Network (seasonal) sesame labourers, Tigray and Amhara regions, Ethiopia Data available; team for additional collection; sesame important commodity (FS focus) BENEFIT-REALISE PSNP+ areas -link with sesame labourers? t.b.d. ICCO Horn of Africa, various cases Limited interest -no clear business prospect Bangladesh (salt-tolerant crops) Myanmar (pulses)Interest to be confirmed Data collection and analysisData collection focused on operationalisation of profiles listed in Wigboldus S. and J. Jacobs, March 2021, and in Figure 1. Data were collected through literature review, interviews, and online workshops. Case 1 -Ethiopia: Migrant labourers working in sesameAn important data source of this case study is a review of relevant literature. Primary data collection took place in the form of face to face focus group discussions, and two semi-structured interviews with key experts. Data collection was done by staff of the SBN project (in close collaboration with the lead author Nina de Roo), and took place between December 15-30, 2020.• Focus Group Discussion 1 -discussion with six labourers from Central Gondar Zone, Belese district (woreda), Guhala village (kebele) (migration source area) about their motivation to migrate, their vulnerabilities, resilience, aspirations and coping strategies, and susceptibility to shocks and stressors.• Focus Group Discussion 2 -discussion with six labourers from West Gondar Zone, Metema district, Abdereg Delelo village (migration destination area) their motivation to migrate, their vulnerabilities, resilience, aspirations and coping strategies, and susceptibility to shocks and stressors.• Focus Group Discussion 3 -discussion with six farmers from West Gondar Zone, Metema district, Abdereg Delelo village (destination area) about their vulnerabilities, resilience, aspirations and coping strategies, and susceptibili...

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“…More non-migrant households (15%) have access to transfers as compared to non-migrant households in general (7%), with statistically significant difference between migrant and non-migrant household (Ayele & Degefa, 2019). Remittances have decreased, as a result of COVID-19 affecting also families in cities or abroad.…”

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“…There are some studies by Santha et al (2016) and Linger (2018) who empirically argue that vulnerability of the migrant to be considered as the risk for the sending family. Despite the fact that migration is one of the livelihood strategies, translocal vulnerabilities [as indicated in environmental migration and sesame price fluctuation, respectively, in Irene (2018) and Ayele and Degefa (2019)] are also the prime factors that are against mobility. Very limited studies consider the translocal vulnerability implication of migration; notably, to the best of the researchers’ knowledge, studies are scant that linked covid-19 with translocal vulnerability context (Ayele and Degefa, 2022).…”

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Does translocal vulnerability apply to labor migrants into the sesame production belt amid covid-19? Evidence from districts in Ethiopia

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Derbe Libshwork,

Mersha

2023

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Purpose The outbreak of covid-19 has affected international migration and remittance and has also narrowed down the opportunities for internal labor migrants. The pandemic has also left internal migrants in a threatening situation due to the closure of job opportunities. Taking the migration of labor from the highland toward the sesame production belt into consideration, this study aims to examine the influencing factors of migration to the sesame belt amid covid-19 and ascertain the link between migration and translocal vulnerability. Design/methodology/approach The study followed a mixed approach that combines quantitative and qualitative methods. However, the quantitative approach tends to dominate due to the nature of the objectives of the study. The study was conducted in the central Gondar zone, using a cross-sectional survey design with a sample size of 150 households collected from January to March, 2021. Both descriptive and econometrics models such as binary logit model have been used. Findings Based on the study result, we came to understand that migration is part and parcel of the livelihoods of the farm household that accounts for 35% of migration status amid covid-19. Particularly, the study came to conclude that households’ decision to send family members heavily relied on their prior information and fear of transmission of the coronavirus to family members which are statistically significant. As a result, this piece of work can be a good witness for translocal vulnerability where studies are very limited in the area. For this, this study suggests that concerned bodies like social and labor affairs in consultation with the agriculture offices and bureaus at a different level and the investors in the migrant’s destination should facilitate the protection and awareness mechanisms so that the spread of covid-19 can be minimized and thereby both the migrants and the investors can be benefitted from the migrants’ work amid covid-19. Originality/value This study tries to connect the current spread of covid-19 with the translocal vulnerability context. Primarily, it empirically argued the translocal vulnerability factor is the main determinant for the farm households to send families’ labor as a livelihood diversification strategy. Very limited studies consider the translocal vulnerability implication of migration; notably to the best of the researchers’ knowledge, studies that linked covid-19 with translocal vulnerability context are scant. On top of that, many studies that link migration with covid-19 tend to be inclined to international migration with very limited attention to internal migration.

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Linking local vulnerability to global sesame market price: The case of temporary rural-rural migrants from Quarit district, Ethiopia

Cited by 4 publications

References 44 publications

Exploring vulnerability and resilience from a multifaceted and systemic perspective : ase studies in Ethiopia and Somaliland

Exploring vulnerability and resilience from a multifaceted and systemic perspective : ase studies in Ethiopia and Somaliland

Responsible finance for vulnerable groupsunder COVID-19

Does translocal vulnerability apply to labor migrants into the sesame production belt amid covid-19? Evidence from districts in Ethiopia

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