Whose Decisions, Whose Livelihoods? Resettlement and Environmental Justice in Ethiopia

Wayessa, Gutu Olana; Nygren, Anja

doi:10.1080/08941920.2015.1089612

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“…Poorly planned resettlement schemes have adverse effects on bio-physical resources as well as on socio-economic aspects of the people (Woube 2005). In Ethiopia, population relocation causes ecological deterioration and severe resource depletion due to uncontrolled encroachment for settlement and farmland expansions (Berhanu et al 2016;Wayessa and Nygren 2016). The emerging settlers' need of cultivable land and residential area intensifies the conversion of vegetated lands into cropping, grazing and settlement areas (Mulugeta and Woldesemait 2011).…”

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Impact of resettlement scheme on vegetation cover and its implications on conservation in Chewaka district of Ethiopia

2020

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Background: Resettlement has been conceived as a viable solution to the continual impoverishment and destitution of Ethiopian rural communities. However, it has considerable impacts on natural resources of the environment at destination areas. This study was carried out to evaluate impact of resettlement scheme on vegetation cover and its implications on conservation in Chewaka district of Ethiopia.

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Impact of resettlement scheme on vegetation cover and its implications on conservation in Chewaka district of Ethiopia

2020

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“…Furthermore, by highlighting differentiated opportunities to take part in decision-making, intersectional studies have emphasised justice as an issue of political representation (Fraser 2009;Nightingale 2011;Sultana 2015). These formulations have facilitated exploring justice in more nuanced ways, incorporating aspects of redistribution, recognition and representation (Schlosberg and Carruthers 2010;Walker 2009Walker , 2012Wayessa and Nygren 2016).…”

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“…In most cases these promises were not kept, and it was a shock when many displaced found themselves relocated in highly degraded areas. Meanwhile, the hosts were promised that their livelihoods would not be negatively affected, yet most lost a significant part of their farmland and grazing to the government's scheme, while their access to services was highly compromised (Wayessa and Nygren 2016).…”

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At the intersections of multiple marginalisations: displacements and environmental justice in Mexico and Ethiopia

Nygren

Wayessa

2018

Environmental Sociology

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This article examines the politics of institutional governance of displacements and the intersecting experiences of environmental justice, drawing on case studies of flood disasters and urban displacements in Villahermosa, Mexico, and government-sponsored displacements and resettlements in rural Oromia, Ethiopia. We argue that a fuller understanding of how institutional governance produces multiple marginalisations requires political-ecological and intersectional analyses of residents' experiences of injustices that encompass interlinkages between social position, gender and political power. The analysis is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Mexico and Ethiopia, comprising interviews, participant observation, document analysis and surveys. The study shows similarities and differences in patterns of governance, mechanisms of marginalisation and relations of authority and power concerning differentiated displacements and everyday vulnerabilities in different contexts of the global South. Our analysis enriches theoretical understanding of governance and justice, demonstrating how multiple marginalities are produced, reinforced and contested through political processes imbricated with forms of governance characterised by institutional intrusion and absence.

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“…There are a lot of studies of displacement and resettlement with a livelihoods approach, from both an academic, as well as a practitioner's viewpoint. Livelihood studies have been undertaken in response to conflict [4,5], state-implemented resettlement schemes [6,7] or natural hazards and climate change adaptation [7,8]. However, while most studies typically look at only one displacement or an event attributed to only one cause, less is known about the effects of multiple and repeated displacements over time on people's livelihoods.…”

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Livelihood Trajectories in a Context of Repeated Displacement: Empirical Evidence from Rwanda

Cottyn

2018

Sustainability

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Displacement, forced migration, and resettlement in Africa have been attributed to a variety of causes and is disrupting all aspects of people’s lives, breaking social, cultural and economic networks that are critical to sustaining livelihoods. Rwanda is one of the countries in Africa with a long history of multiple displacements, and the life trajectories of many Rwandans are characterised by multiple experiences of displacement, and involuntary migration. Although many have researched the effects of displacement on people’s livelihoods from both an academic, as well as a practitioner’s viewpoint, less is known about the effects of multiple and repeated displacements over time on people’s livelihood. Instead of treating each displacement separately, this article aims to analyse the effects of repeated displacement the livelihoods and adaptive capacity of households in Rwanda. To this purpose, six months of fieldwork were conducted in the north-western region of Rwanda, collecting data from a household livelihood survey, household livelihood and mobility histories, and focus group discussions. The research highlights the importance of social and human capital as crucial to people’s resilience. However, the successive loss of natural capital in combination with changing social and economic conditions diminishes the ability of many households to keep employing these capitals to reconstruct a sustainable livelihood. Forced to become increasingly creative and flexible in their coping strategies, many households employ mobility as a survival mechanism to spread risks.

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Whose Decisions, Whose Livelihoods? Resettlement and Environmental Justice in Ethiopia

Cited by 35 publications

References 38 publications

Impact of resettlement scheme on vegetation cover and its implications on conservation in Chewaka district of Ethiopia

Impact of resettlement scheme on vegetation cover and its implications on conservation in Chewaka district of Ethiopia

At the intersections of multiple marginalisations: displacements and environmental justice in Mexico and Ethiopia

Livelihood Trajectories in a Context of Repeated Displacement: Empirical Evidence from Rwanda

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