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Water for all and all for water? Governmental interventions affecting property of natural resources in northern Ethiopia

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In spite of growing international attention for natural resource management, relations of property regarding natural resources have hardly been studied in Ethiopia, a country known for its oxen-plow-based agriculture and revolutionary land reforms. This article goes beyond the agricultural focus and provides an actor-oriented analysis of water management in an Ethiopian microlevel context within a theoretical framework that builds on development discourses, social interfaces, and relations of property. The disconnectedness between government policies and local reality and the repercussions thereof for policy implementation are unraveled and so bring to light hybrids of development discourses. Relations of property still appear to be based on former private landholding systems in spite of socialist land reform, and hybrids of development discourses are deployed at three levels of institutionalization, policymaking, and implementation that are disconnected from each other, which leads to discrepancies between policy discourse and practice. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
Journal: Society & Natural Resources
ISSN: 0894-1920
Issue: 11
Volume: 26
Pages: 1300 - 1313
Publication year:2013
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BOF-publication weight:1
CSS-citation score:1
Authors:International
Authors from:Higher Education
Accessibility:Closed