This article seeks to examine the nature and consequences of agrarian change in Ethiopia since the revolution of 1974. It argues that while the reforms implemented since 1975 have effectively destroyed the age-old feudal framework of agriculture, they have not yet created a coherent new...

This article argues that the transformation of the rural economy should proceed on a broad front which links the development of the state sector with the need to transform family agriculture through co-operation. In actual fact, planning became concentrated on the state sector which received the...

The central variable through which the rural sector influences the Ethiopian national economic performance is the marketed proportion of output. The study deals with the linkage and with the macroeconomic distributional outcomes of the growth process for the rural and urban sectors. The probable...