This study deals with the changing role of access to farmland on household rnsocio-economic status overtime and regimes in Wonqa, East Gojjam, where land rnwas an index for socio-economic status in pre-1975. The research identified local rnlevel dynamics in relation with household access to farmland and socio-economic rnstatus since the 1975 Land Reform. rnThe study attempted to show the processes of land distributions, redistributions rnand household heads' strategies to maximize their access in such processes rnsince 1975. Politico-economic status and kinship has been persistent means to rnget access to more farmland. Inheritance, which was weakened as a major rnmeans of access to land in the O{3rg period, has been re-instituted as a major rnmeans of land access. rnThe role of capital and labour is also important to get access to farmland through rnlocal agreements in which their values vary with the varying value of land over rntime. Moreover, local agreements developed a market nature in which everybody rntried to maximize their share and the involvement of money has increased. rnThe research also analyzed the socio-economic implications of the 1975 Land rnReform and subsequent distributions on inter and intra-household relations, as rnwell as relations among the kinsmen and so on. Above all, the thesis argues that rnpolitical position has continued as a primary factor to get access to more rnXli rnfarmland. Furthermore, land has continued as an important factor for household rnlivelihood and a major component together with capital for economic rnstratification. However, land is no longer a symbol of social status. Thus, the rnstudy shows continuity as well as change in the socio-economic status of the rnfarming households in relation to access to farmland across the time period rnunder discussion.