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Livelihood strategies in the context of population pressure : a case study in the Hararghe Highlands, Eastern Ethiopia
Thesis (PhD (Rural Development Planning))--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27689 Livelihood strategies in the context of population pressure : a case study in the Hararghe Highlands, Eastern Ethiopia Kirsten, Johann F. upetd@ais.up.ac.za Tefera, Tesfaye Lemma Population density ethiopia Rural development ethiopia Sustainable agriculture ethiopia Subsistance economy ethiopia UCTD Thesis (PhD (Rural Development Planning))--University of Pretoria, 2006. The thesis presented the results of an investigation into livelihood strategies of rural households in the Hararghe Highlands in the context of population pressure. The human welfare and resource outcomes of rural livelihood strategies were assessed, accounting for the “mediating” factors. The study enriches the current policy debate on how to create an enabling environment to strengthen sustainable rural livelihoods and mitigate adverse welfare and resource consequences of unsustainable rural livelihood strategies. The sustainable livelihood framework for analysing rural livelihoods in the context of population pressure was modified in the thesis to guide the analyses. Primary data was obtained from 197 randomly selected households from three representative sites in the Hararghe Highlands. Whilst verbal description, interpretation and appreciation of facts, and case studies were used for the qualitative data analysis, multivariate techniques and logistic regression were employed to analyse the quantitative data. The study showed that subdivision and fragmentation of agricultural land and re-emergence of landlessness have accompanied the unprecedented population growth in the Hararghe Highlands. The pace of demographic change of the area is so fast that it has caused failure of indigenous countervailing and adaptations. Sufficient effective demand for sustainable intensification of smallholder farms has, however, not been created due to uncertain right to the land and inadequate market incentives. Furthermore, the technology generation and dissemination systems have failed to build the capacity of smallholder farmers to respond to the demographic pressure in a sustainable way. This has generally resulted in negative welfare and resource outcomes. Nonetheless, rural households pursue heterogeneous livelihood strategies due to differential access to livelihood assets, and heterogeneous constraints and incentives. The nature and the extent of welfare and resource outcomes of rural livelihood strategies are different across sites and among different households. A livelihood strategy that integrates cash crop production with high external input-based staple crops production and trade was found to be more successful. Overall, the findings challenge the current untargeted and uniform intervention that implicitly assumes that only farming and the intensification of staple crop production for food self-sufficiency is important to all households. Furthermore, the findings challenge the over simplified generalisations regarding the human welfare and resource effects of rural population growth in Ethiopia as if the interactions between them were taking place in a political, an institutional and an agro-climatic vacuum and as if rural households in a district, a sub-district or a village were a “homogeneous” group. What is thus needed is decentralisation of rural development planning and building of the capacity of local institutions so that they may be able to understand rural livelihoods and design innovative and locally specific integrated interventions to support sustainable rural livelihoods. The specific recommendations include ensuring land tenure security, improving farmers’ access to the market and appropriate technologies, creating conducive environment for commercialisation and livelihood diversification, institutionalised safety net, resettlement and family planning. Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development unrestricted 2013-09-07T12:04:38Z 2005-09-06 2013-09-07T12:04:38Z 2003-09-01 2006-09-06 2005-09-02 Thesis Tefera, T 2003, Livelihood strategies in the context of population pressure : a case study in the Hararghe Highlands, Eastern Ethiopia, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27689 > http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27689 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09022005-120433/ © 2003, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Population density ethiopia Rural development ethiopia Sustainable agriculture ethiopia Subsistance economy ethiopia UCTD Livelihood strategies in the context of population pressure : a case study in the Hararghe Highlands, Eastern Ethiopia |
| title | Livelihood strategies in the context of population pressure : a case study in the Hararghe Highlands, Eastern Ethiopia |
| title_full | Livelihood strategies in the context of population pressure : a case study in the Hararghe Highlands, Eastern Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Livelihood strategies in the context of population pressure : a case study in the Hararghe Highlands, Eastern Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Livelihood strategies in the context of population pressure : a case study in the Hararghe Highlands, Eastern Ethiopia |
| title_short | Livelihood strategies in the context of population pressure : a case study in the Hararghe Highlands, Eastern Ethiopia |
| title_sort | livelihood strategies in the context of population pressure a case study in the hararghe highlands eastern ethiopia |
| topic | Population density ethiopia Rural development ethiopia Sustainable agriculture ethiopia Subsistance economy ethiopia UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27689 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09022005-120433/ |