Beschreibung
This study based on many years of field research tries to
reveal the complex socio-cultural, economic and
environmental changes brought about by the state-sponsored
resettlement scheme Pawe in the north-western lowlands of
Ethiopia. The autochthonous inhabitants of the area, the
Nilo-Saharan-speaking Gumuz, practicing shifting cultivation
were confronted with a massive influx of about 80,000
relocated plough cultivators from various drought- and
famine-stricken highland parts of the country. From the
contradictory strategies of livelihood and resource
management of these two groups serious conflicts evolved
which have so far not yet been overcome.
