Change in Land Use. Transformation from Cattle Herding to Rice production and Irrigation Among Fogera Plain Peasants, Northwestern Ethiopia

      Аннотация: The socioeconomic transformation among the Fogera Plain people in Northwestern Ethiopia is remarkable. The process of change from predominantly transhumant cattle herding to rice cultivation and irrigation based agriculture is due to external intervention in consideration of the ecology to the east of Lake Tana. Theoretically, the finding of the study goes with broad political economic perspective for the analysis of transformation in rural community.

Ключевые слова: Rice production, transhuman cattle herding, broad political economic perspective, change in land use, socioeconomic transformation, irrigation based agriculture