Agrarian change and agricultural policy in post-imperial Ethiopia (1974-1988)
The paper includes the following chapters : 1. Agrarian Development and Peasant Societies : The Nature of the Problem, 2. Agricultural Production (1974-88), 3. The 1975 Land Reform, 4. Producer Cooperatives and State Farms, 5. New Land use Policies
that the policies of the Ethiopian government made a decisive contribution to the famine and civil unrest. He will argue that the recent droughts exacerbated, but did not cause the adverse trends that were evident before the drought. - (L'A.).