Household Access To Farmland And Socioeconomic Status The Case Of Wonqa Kabale Gozamin Warada (east Gojjam) Amhara Region

This study deals with the changing role of access to farmland on householdrnsocio-economic status overtime and regimes in Wonqa, East Gojjam, where landrnwas an index for socio-economic status in pre-1975. The research identified localrnlevel dynamics in relation with household access to farmland and socio-economicrnstatus since the 1975 Land Reform.rnThe study attempted to show the processes of land distributions, redistributionsrnand household heads' strategies to maximize their access in such processesrnsince 1975. Politico-economic status and kinship has been persistent means tornget access to more farmland. Inheritance, which was weakened as a majorrnmeans of access to land in the Därg period, has been re-instituted as a majorrnmeans of land access.rnThe role of capital and labour is also important to get access to farmland throughrnlocal agreements in which their values vary with the varying value of land overrntime. Moreover, local agreements developed a market nature in which everybodyrntried to maximize their share and the involvement of money has increased.rnThe research also analyzed the socio-economic implications of the 1975 LandrnReform and subsequent distributions on inter and intra-household relations, asrnwell as relations among the kinsmen and so on. Above all, the thesis argues thatrnpolitical position has continued as a primary factor to get access to more farmland. Furthermore, land has continued as an important factor for householdrnlivelihood and a major component together with capital for economicrnstratification. However, land is no longer a symbol of social status. Thus, thernstudy shows continuity as well as change in the socio-economic status of thernfarming households in relation to access to farmland across the time periodrnunder discussion

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