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Title: | Food and Development in Ethiopia: Retrospect and Prospect |
Author: | Kiros, Fassil G. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Journal of Ethiopian Studies |
Volume: | 21 |
Period: | November |
Pages: | 83-110 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | agricultural policy food shortage Development and Technology Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Health and Nutrition |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41965963 |
Abstract: | This paper analyses the conditions which have given rise to the food crisis in Ethiopia in spite of the development policies pursued during a period of many decades. In the first part, the overall policies and strategies pursued in the periods before and after the revolution are reviewed. In the prerevolution period these policies included comprehensive, large-scale regional agricultural projects which either put an emphasis on food grain production, or population resettlement, or were of the agroindustrial, import-substituting, and/or export-promoting type. The post-revolution period witnessed the rise of a policy of agricultural transformation in accordance with socialist goals. New institutions were created on the political level, as well as on the level of production. The outcomes of these policies and strategies are critically examined in the second part of the paper on the basis of the overriding development goals which have been pursued in the past in the agricultural sector. Conclusions emphasize, first, the need to reorient development goals in favour of the producers in the agricultural sector, and second, the necessity to redefine the function of food policy in the context of these goals. Ref. |